Hi, for a while I wanted to suggest adding the option of using a different style for microtone accidentals. I personally prefer the use of up or down arrows on extended vertical lines of the standard accidentals (see attached example). The advantage of this style is a better differentiation of enharmonic spelling which makes reading and performance better suited to the way those pitches are produced on different instruments or the musical context (like in the spelling of chords). In this case an extended syntax for the accidentals would make sense.
I give two examples with the different enharmonic spellings and the proposed lilypond syntax: 1. pitch: quarter tone below a glyphs lilypond syntax ----------------------------------------------------------------- "a" with natural with arrow down aeh "a" with flat sign with arrow up aesih "g" with sharp sign with arrow up gisih 2. pitch: quarter tone above a glyphs lilypond syntax ----------------------------------------------------------------- "a" with natural with arrow up aih "a" with sharp sign with arrow down aiseh "b" with flat sign with arrow down beseh I designed the glyphs in a postscript font and can provide them if anybody is interested (they stem from a very old version of the Petrucci font and probably will have to get adjusted to the more beautiful Feta glyphs, but the basic work is done). What do you think? Yours, Orm
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