Issue 694: Enhancement: better support for microtone accidentals http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=694
New issue report by v.villenave: This suggestion has been discussed several times on our lists, and many ideas have been raised. This is an attempt to gather some of these. Two ideas prevail: a- we should have support for smaller intervals than quarter-tones b- the way microtone accidentals are printed should be more flexible. a) Micro intervals Many users have asked about thirdtones, sixthtones etc. accidentals. Ideally, a special property could set the pitch as precisely as 1/100 or 1/180 of a tone. Han-Wen, 2005: "It shouldn't be hard to write music functions that puts the correct cents setting into each NoteEvent, given a desired scale." http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00142.html Han-Wen, 2005: "In my opinion, it would be best if Lily were extended with a generic mechanism for entering and printing microtones, so we can support arbitrary styles." http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-10/msg00014.html b) Look-and-feel of microtone accidentals Many users have asked about different ways of printing such accidentals; a request that is particularly popular is about arrowed accidentals. Orm Finnendahl designed some glyphs: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-01/msg00478.html Maximilian Albert made a first implementation draft: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-02/msg00028.html ... then a more elaborate one: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-10/msg00067.html ... then he announced a bunch of patches more recently: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-09/msg00158.html Many (I mean *many*) people have expressed their interest in these features, and some of them (to be found in the discussions above) have stated they'd be ready to pay some fee to see them implemented. Issue attributes: Status: Accepted Owner: v.villenave Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium Bounty -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
