On 1/27/07, Orm Finnendahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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"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?
Question: would it be possible to have access to *both* sets of
glyphs? It seems to me that I've seen both types of glyphs mixed
together in single scores; usually the existing quartertone glyphs
show exact quartertone alterations while the arrowed glyphs show
approximate alterations.
I actually had never considered substituting arrowed-accidetals for
the existing glyphs, but thinking about it now I can see exactly why
you would want to do so ... they really do have a cleaner look ...
So, I definitely vote for the incusion of the new arrowed-accidentals
and, if possible, I'd like to continue to have access to the existing
quartertone accidentals for use at the same time. (I don't know what
this says about the input syntax, though ...)
--
Trevor Bača
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