Hello, I have seen an older discussion between Adam Good and Han-Wen (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-10/msg00028.html) about implementing microtone support more completely. The latest lilypond documentation (2.11.33) doesn't tell about significant steps on this issue. As playing turkish makkam music, to me it would be preferable to be able to notate in the way most turkish musicians use the microtone notation - I can't attach a scanned image (due to message size restrictions).
There seems not to be any consensus about the notation of microtones in general. I suppose e. g. that Arabic microtones are noted slightly differently than turkish ones (the arabic tone system is different). Could it be a viable implementation to give the user the ability to select the accidental, the pitch and the corresponding glyph he wants to use for a specific case of microtone notation? E. g. cesF cesB cesS cesK cisF cisB cisS cisK for the turkish system (describing the 1, 4, 5, or 8 kommata intervals; 2-3 kommata is not used, 9 is already available in standard notation-it's the double sharp resp. double-flat.) Also a notation of the microtone accidentals at the beginning of a score would be useful; of course it can't be in the way of "D major", because I think there is no harmonic concept in turkish music, but rather a scale based one. Hopefully I did not bore anyone, but I need this feature and in no other notation system microtones are considered at all. I would also contribute monetarily, to support the work, if it is appropriate. Regards Dimitris PS: I'm not a programmer _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
