"So what's the sanest course with regard to new articulations?" >From the perspective of contemporary music, the sanest course is to provide basic utilities for drawing arbitrarily complex symbols in specified locations, which Lilypond sort of does/doesn't have.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:59 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: > > >> I'm not sure if this the right place to ask this, but I'd be willing > >> to send somebody some money via Paypal to add the so-called "Haydn > >> turn" (reversed turn with vertical slash) to Lilypond. > > > > Please provide a scan (or a link to it) of such a symbol which you > > consider as good-looking.. > > > >> I have no idea how much work this would take and what the going rate > >> for a feature like this is. > > > > If an existing symbol can be reused, implementing this is rather > > straightforward, and a few hours of work will do. A design from > > scratch probably needs three or four times as long. > > By the way: how is the relation to other music fonts? If we invent a > new articulation, music fonts from other sources will not know about it, > or we won't know about what they have. And even if we puzzle > articulations together from pieces, they won't fit together just the > same in other music fonts. > > So what's the sanest course with regard to new articulations? This is > not really related to this particular addition, but it generally makes > me wonder. > > -- > David Kastrup > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- 《〠》】〶【〖〠〗〶〛〷〚 Jeff Treviño PhD Candidate in Music Composition @ the University of California, San Diego 〖〠〗〶〛〷〚《〠》】〶 Skype: jeffreytrevino E-mail: jeffrey.trev...@gmail.com Web: www.jeffreytrevino.com 〚《〠》】〶【〖〠〗〶〛〷 9310H Redwood Dr. La Jolla, CA 92037 USA 〖〠〗〶〛〷〚《〠》】〶【
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