2009/2/22 Fr. Michael Gilmary <frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org>: > >> 2009/2/20 Fr. Michael Gilmary <frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org>: >> >>> >>> Is there any development in Lilypond for typesetting the music and lyrics >>> from >>> right to left? We would use it for setting some Syriac hymns. >>> > >> Valentin Villenave wrote: >> Surprisingly enough, it is not (yet) supported. You can, however, >> print text from right to left in a markup object, as demonstrated at >> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=555 >> >> If you can provide us with some short examples of such scores, I'll >> add this as a feature request. >> > > Hi Valentin: > > I use XeLaTeX (TL2008) with Lilypond (2.11.62) to set Syriac > *transliteration* on Mac OS 10.4.11. For the Syriac non-music the fontspec > package with XeLaTeX nicely scripts the Syriac. > > I have the attached the .ly file for the Our Father in Syriac with the > English transliteration. If you'd like to work with the Syriac glyphs, I've > got them in a separate (.ly) file. The Syriac font(s) can be obtained free > from www.bethMardutho.org (or .com?) and are called "melthofonts". You can > ignore the website warning that they won't work with Mac OS X, since they > work fine. The problem is that there is no native Mac keyboard for Syriac > and no (Mac) program scripts it correctly ... except Mellel --- a trial > version is free. If you're on a Mac, I can send you the Mac keyboard I've > used which is based on two different ones: one developed by Steve Caruso ( > www.aramaicnt.org --- I think) and another fellow whose name I forgot. > > If you're using Windows, their Syriac keyboard works fine and everything > scripts well. But I work on a Mac. > > I don't have the Syriac text hyphenated for the music, but it /is/ broken > into the lines. > > Thanks in advance!
I was unable to get the suggested font working correctly, but your feature request is now on the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=937 Sorry for the delay. If you have any further examples to contribute, I would be happy to add them to the tracker. Thanks, Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
