[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > quarter-tone accidentals, on the other hand, have a long history of > common usage and are well-entrenched in the current notational lexicon > available to composers AND readable by performers. in my many years of > work as a performer in the field of avant-garde concert music, i have > run into quarter-tone notation MANY times, but can't recall a single > instance of other microtonal divisions in printed music. i DO know folks > who work in the microtonal area, but the performance and > instrument-building skills required generally limit those activities to > a few folks. > > bottom line: performers and composers generally know about and are > comfortable with quarter-tones, so they should be included.
See 1.9 CVS: * Quarter tones are now supported. They are entered by suffixing `ih' for a half-sharp and `eh' for a half-flat. Hence, the following is an ascending list of pitches: ceses ceseh ces ceh c cih cis cisih cisis -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user