On 31 Dec 2010, at 16:19, Felipe Gonçalves Assis wrote:
Thanks for the code, Hans!
There are many things I am curious about. Now that I have the sources,
I will spend some time analysing them, and then contact you.
While I need some time to study your considerations, what I can say
now is:
. If, under a given musical system, what is printed on the score is
enough to
determine the precise tuning of a pitch, and if LilyPond supports
the notation
used, then it is possible to write an engraver that produces the
correct sound
output without changing the pitch representation. As I said, using
the number
1/2 to represent a sharp does not bind you to ET.
. Otherwise, I need to carefully study tuning systems and their use.
So, while I am proposing a somewhat fundamental change, it is still
something
relatively simple, that will hopefully not break much user code, and
might
make some microtonalists happy. I have good hope that this job may be
finished before the Equinox.
Graham Breed haas already extended it to arbitrary ETs within the
current LilyPond pitch model - I have added some of his stuff to the
link I put up before. In the file regular.ly, he somehow recomputes
it. I do not know how it works, only that for key signatures of the
form \key ..., there is a problem if the accidentals are not in E24.
So those must be written out explicitly.
That being pointed, I must express that I would very much appreciate
to
further bridge your ideas into LilyPond so as to make it an even more
powerful software. We actually have plenty of time for that, since
work for
2.15 has not even officially started yet.
My proposal involve an entirely new model, but I think it would be
simpler to use, and also be able to make the most of the staff
typesetting system.
I then suggest we proceed with this conversation in a different
branch,
in private or in public, as you prefer, and keep this thread to
discuss
how the simpler ideas I am proposing might get into LilyPond.
Post it to this list so others know, but cc me if you want to be sure
I see it.
I look forward to keeping in contact with you.
Just shoot.
Hans
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