[+lilypond-user] You should ask on lilypond-user
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Clive So <cliv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Han-Wen, > > I have been studying 31 equal temperament and wish to implement Adriaan > Fokker's notation in Lilypond. I would very much appreciate it if you could > give me some help. > > In search for a solution, I found a 2008 thread between you and Graham > Breed: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Arbitrary-accidental-glyphs-td110936.html. > This seems to correspond to my problem, but unfortunately it is way beyond > my technical ability. I have even tried to study his codes for using > Sagittal in Lilypond (http://x31eq.com/lilypond/), but it was again too > technical for me. Editing the Metafont source also seems too difficult. > > I have also tried directly editing emmentaler-20.otf using FontForge, but > the it ignores the "tables" and messes up the file after saving. Lilypond > gives up and uses emmentaler-23 instead! > > Lilypond already has the necessary degree of precision (is, isih, isis, es, > eseh, eses), but Fokker's accidentals have specific meaning and seem more > legible when reading at speed. I have adapted the Feta-20 glyphs and created > a font (see attachment) containing just the necessary accidentals (normal > sharp, flat and natural; new semisharp, sesquisharp, semiflat and > sesquiflat). "Fokker2" is the FontForge source file. > > Any solution, elegant or not, will do. It's just I've tried hard but I > haven't got anywhere. I have a feeling that it's something a Lilypond > developer can accomplish in 15 minutes, but can take people like me months > to learn all the necessary skills before getting anywhere near. > > If you have time to solve my problem, I think the simplest way would be that > you typeset IMAG207.jpg into Lilypond, and then I can learn directly from > your code. > > Thank you in advance for all your help and thank you for all your efforts in > the continued development of this excellent programme! > > Clive > > -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
