Re: Changing quarter tone notation

2012-09-06 Thread Arle Lommel
Thanks Keith, I appreciate the answer. It was what I was afraid of. Since I really don't know Scheme well enough to hack things like that, I guess I'll stick with the default glyphs. I wanted to avoid articulations since that means the underlying tones in the Lilypond would be incorrect (e.g.,

Re: Changing quarter tone notation

2012-09-05 Thread Keith OHara
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:37:38 -0700, Arle Lommel wrote: If the arrows were independent of the sharp and flat signs (which would derive as normal from the key signature plus accidentals, as if the quarter-tone shifts did not exist) and placed above/below the note heads, that would be it. For

Re: Changing quarter tone notation

2012-09-05 Thread Arle Lommel
[apologies for reposting, but I had the wrong subject heading, which means nobody would have read this before.]Hi Keith,Thanks for this answer and my apologies for taking a while to acknowledge it. For some reason I missed it at the time and only today found it.The bit there is a different system t

Re: Changing quarter tone notation

2012-08-30 Thread Keith OHara
Arle Lommel gmail.com> writes: > > As a separate question from the last, does anyone know of a simple way > to override the quarter-tone notation in Lilypond? This method http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=784 is maybe more complicated than you need, because it takes trouble to distinguish

Changing quarter tone notation

2012-08-29 Thread Arle Lommel
As a separate question from the last, does anyone know of a simple way to override the quarter-tone notation in Lilypond? In particular, I want to replace half sharps with an upward arrow over the note, which is the de facto standard in the particular ethnomusicological area I work in. While the ha