Hi Paul, thanks for getting back to me. To update the list: I'm working on making a set of stencils (using the various svg-to-path functions that Lily and the snippets repository have), which will then be used by the just-intonation toolset Urs is working on to build custom accidentals from individual stencils on the fly.
The way that system would work is complicated, and based on fundamentally different design principles than conventional accidentals (or any of the usual variants used for music in just intonation, including Helmholtz, Ben Johnson's set, or [I suspect] any others). I want to reiterate: I'm not looking to be convinced of why some *other* system of accidentals is better (for whatever metric one might use to measure "better"), but rather want to see what's involved in getting the system I use to engrave properly within Lily. The system works like this: 1) each accidental has a long thin vertical line: approximately 1 staff-height, though maybe slightly less or more depending on: 2) any number of smaller stencils, each approximately as wide as a normal accidental. Each of these corresponds to a prime number 3) the number and arrangement of those smaller stencils is determined by the prime factorization of the numerator and denominator of the fraction that makes up the harmonic ratio. So, I suspect the thin vertical line needs no stencil, as it's easy enough to draw on the fly. But the smaller stencils are more efficiently drawn as stencils beforehand (rather than drawing a path each time), especially since their placement depends on things like collision avoidance. Paul says he can give me tips on drawing the stencils. I can fire up Inkscape, but where do I start? How large should the shape be? Thanks in advance for the help. Cheers, A On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Paul Morris <p...@paulwmorris.com> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Glad to share what I know about svg-to-path work. Could we continue the > discussion on the user list so that it’s public for others to benefit from, > and/or chime in? If that works for you, would you re-send your message > below to the user list and I’ll reply there? > > Cheers, > -Paul > > > On Dec 11, 2015, at 8:57 AM, N. Andrew Walsh <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > I've been doing some background work on my just-intonation accidentals, > and I was hoping you could give me some advice on the svg-to-path > translation. I know what the stencils should look like, but I'm not sure > about things like scaling (how many units high or wide should a stencil > have if it's equivalent, say, to the thick bars in a sharp sign?), and what > the best procedure might be for drawing them. Could you give me some > advice/help? > > I think this is going to be geared towards adding into the OLL repository > as part of the "contemporary notation" extensions, so probably aimed at the > dev branch. So I'll see about the make-path-stencil (are you sure it's that > and not the "make-connected-path-stencil" I see in the LSR?). > > Cheers, > > A > > >
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