On Sun, Apr 19, 2009, Richard Schoeller <schoel...@comcast.net> said:
> One common approach when combining a right-to-left language with > left-to-right musical notation is to render each syllable of the lyrics > right-to-left but have the overall flow of the music left-to-right. I > haven't tried this with any of the stuff that I've done (I present the > lyrics in transliteration). So, I can't tell you how well this works in > LilyPond. However it is done, and by whatecer program, there are some pretty hefty issues for position-contextual writing systems such as arabic. Arabic letters have variant shapes when used in different positions (opening, middle, closing); fragmenting a wordd into sylables exposes middle letters; not at all sure the common reader is used to seeing that. Further, when placed correctly under the music they will be presented in backwards order: hava nagilla is shown as ah - av_ an - lig - al_ which is less of a challenge for a markup-based entry system like lilypond than it is for a GUI-based system that attempts WYSIWYG editing of the lyrics in place (of interest here should we someday go for that). The challenge being to re-order the syllables (unnaturally) as the user splits the words for us. -- Dana Emery _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
