Thank you for your message. I am hoping to reproduce the arrow notation used by the composer, rather than substituting a different notational convention (which this composer has employed in other pieces). The fact that he implies a difference between a slightly lowered F & a slightly raised E makes me think that he is seeking to inflect the note rather than achieving an identifiable quartertone. Thank you also for alerting me to the resources you mentioned which I had not found.
You could use the Helmholtz-Ellis notation because the arrows are a subset of it and you haven't specified what the inflection should be so a comma should be good enough. But it should be simpler than that. The arrowed glyphs are in Lilypond's standard font. All you need is to define a new language with whatever pitch inflections you want, and a list of accidentals using the right glyphs. This should have been done before, or there's not much point in having the arrowed glyphs, but I don't know where.
There's some help at http://x31eq.com/lilypond/ Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
