I found a font which has the koron and sori, apparently it's available in Finale.
See http://www.pertout.com/PhD2007Introduction.htm links at bottom (downloads) for the fonts. I have no idea how to use this in lilypond though. Kees ----- Original Message ----- ----- Original Message ----- From: Behnam Rassi <beh...@videotron.qc.ca> Date: Monday, February 2, 2009 4:48 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Kees van den Doel <kvand...@shaw.ca> Cc: Hans Aberg <hab...@math.su.se>, Graham Breed <gbr...@gmail.com>, lilypond <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Yes of-course send me any relevant picture of Persian music > notation. > I'm currently in the phase of collecting information as much > as > possible. > I also need to study more about the specifics of font making > for > LilyPond. I did not have time yet to delve in this issue. But > I'm > pretty much confident it's a no brainer. > What I'm not clear about is that you don't need just a > font > containing two glyphs for Sori and Koron right? You need a > font > containing all necessary glyphs for music writing, including > Sori and > Koron. So I have to add them to an existing font. Did I > understand it > correctly? I don't think I will be able to design ALL of them. > I'll > be able to design Sori and Koron (and Tahrir and whatever else > I > found consistently used) in visual harmony with other > existing > notations. > > I will get back to you when I collected the information I need. > I did > not have time to study the font part yet. I will get back to you > when > I have a clearer idea about the whole issue. > > Behnam > > On 2-Feb-09, at 7:20 PM, Kees van den Doel wrote: > > > If you want to support more Persian notation the most > important > > (and universal) is probably the symbol for tahrir, which is a > small > > o above (if stems up) or below (if stems down) and in the > middle of > > two equal notes. > > Something like > > o > o <- tahrir > > O O O > > | | | > > | | | > > > > it indicates a small grace note of undefined pitch. > > > > There are some symbols for tar/setar and santur as well, let > me > > know if you want to see any. > > > > Kees > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Behnam Rassi <beh...@videotron.qc.ca> > > Date: Monday, February 2, 2009 2:46 pm > > Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori > > To: Kees van den Doel <kvand...@shaw.ca> > > Cc: Hans Aberg <hab...@math.su.se>, Graham Breed > > <gbr...@gmail.com>, lilypond <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > > > >> I also hopefully will get some pictures from Iran. > >> The thickness of the lines have also something to do with its > >> harmony > >> with other music notes. So this is not much of an issue. But > >> the > >> basic shaping has something that should be looked more > >> carefully. But > >> generally speaking it is pretty clear to me. > >> There is apparently some specific notation marks for some > >> specific > >> instruments as well (Taar for example) I'm waiting for the scans > >> to > >> see what's the situation. > >> Behnam > >> On 2-Feb-09, at 4:50 PM, Kees van den Doel wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>> On 2 Feb 2009, at 20:58, Kees van den Doel wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I have several shelves of Persian music books and I have never > >>>> seen > >>>>> that "variation". > >>>>> The sori is always a rotated = with an > on it, and the koron > >>>> akways > >>>>> has the '>' body. > >>>> > >>>> That is good to know - I think what you say is best, being > >>>> most > >>>> distinguishable (like from an inverted b or some other sharp > >>>> variation). > >>>> There is a small subtlety: the usual sharp # is usually > drawn a > >>>> bit > >>>> slanted (endpoints of vertical bars not exactly level, but > >>>> moving up). > >>>> I think this may have to do with how the horizontal lines "=" > >>>> are > >>>> drawn (somewhat slanted upwards). These horizontal lines are > >>>> also > >>>> usually drawn fat. > >>>> > >>>> Can you see in your examples how the sori is drawn in these > >>>> respects? > >>>> That is, are vertical line endpoints level, > >>> > >>> No, the vertical lines are just as in the normal sharp. > >>> > >>>> and is the ">" fatter? > >>> > >>> Usually not, but they are handwritten. I'll scan in some > >> more > >>> examples to compare. > >>> > >>> Kees > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
