Why not compromise and go up and down like some Japanese notations? On Apr 18, 2009, at 2:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dumb question, some (perverse?) writing systems are contrary to > western > music notation, how does one set hebrew or arabic lyrics to western > music? > > Only way I can think of is to transliterate phonetically into the > roman > alphabet, as in - > > hava nagila, hava nagila... > > I realize this presents certain cultural issues, but what is a music > typesetting program to do? I suppose it could be written to set > the music > right-eft, but that could be a bit challenging to the members of the > band... > > -- > Dana Emery > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [email protected] http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ --
