Indeeed the code is helpful for my purposes to rember oud fingering! I
can produce midi files as well. (First I had some problems, no idea what
I did wrong, started again from scratch and it worked.) I am
enthusiastic with this extension!!!
One (may be) problem is that one cannot mix the spellings, i. e. cis and
cs. I can live with the "new" spelling of accidentals with your code and
find it very pleasing and shorter as well. But I ( and for shure many
others) do have "old" code, the want still to use and an extension or
mix would be nice. A conversion is tedious. "is" and "s" ( as in as) is
present in many other parts of code so a simple "replace all" is
unrewarding. If the developers can be convinced to integrate this code
additionally to the old way for simultaneously use is very questionable.
To summarize, I am very satisfied with that extension and could not find
any bugs in my first attampts, beside the "incompatibility" problem
described above.
Just for completeness of information:
In the arabic world there are different areas/schools/traditional lines
that play notes slightly higher or lower than notated. For that there
will be used arrows up or down in the music. For instance see
http://maqamworld.com/maqamat/sikah.html
at the bottom of the page "Maqam Sikah Baladi" you see such arrows. I
think that compares to the "blue note" in the Blues, where the notation
will give just an idea.
Maybe there is a oposibility to add such arrows to the sheet?
Persian qauartertones are generally played flatter, Turkish quartertones
generally are played sharper, arabic ones are in the middle. But that is
not a question of the notation. That is a regional difference in taste.
Even in arabic music there is a west arabic and an east arabic style.
Well, I myself am just happy to find the correct quartertone in playing
oud, regardless of persian/turkish/arabic! The tabs will help me in this!
Thanks again and have a nice weekend,
BB
On 13.08.2015 21:52, Thomas Morley wrote:
Glad to hear my coding works for you.
Though, I've no knowledge in microtonal music at all.
All I did was to let the TabStaff print positions like "1½" etc.
I've even no clue, whether the result is correct and would need you
and others for feedback about it.
But if you have a look into makam.ly you see how pitches and names are
defined. You could do similiar to create own names and pitches.
TabStaff_should_ then display them correctly, if not report it.
No idea about midi, though...
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