Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Breed wrote Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:01 AM I can demonstrate the bug with that file though. Here's an example: \version "2.11.65" \include "arabic.ly" melody = \relative { \key re \bayati do re mi fa sol la si do } \score { \new Staff \melody \layout { } \midi { } } It fa

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-11 Thread Hans Aberg
On 11 Dec 2008, at 04:47, Graham Breed wrote: Yes, but nobody agrees on what that intermediate pitch *is* do they? And Arab pop music really does use equally tempered synthesizers however much the purists may object. It may in fact be even more complicated: the intermediate pitch (or absence

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 11 Dec 2008, at 04:47, Graham Breed wrote: Now, everyone agrees that in Arab music, the intermediate pitch isn't that - in fact the guy who write it said he was taught to lower it, which agree with the values Farhat uses in Persian music (using koron and sori; see below). Yes, but nob

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Graham Breed
2008/12/10 Hans Aberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now, everyone agrees that in Arab music, the intermediate pitch isn't that - > in fact the guy who write it said he was taught to lower it, which agree > with the values Farhat uses in Persian music (using koron and sori; see > below). Yes, but nobody

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Graham Breed
2008/12/10 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You'll want to pay special attention to ly/arabic.ly, and make > sure you understand everything that's happening in there. I found it! There's some stencil stuff which looks interesting, but otherwise it doesn't do very much -- the tuning comes f

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Dec 2008, at 20:14, Trevor Daniels wrote: Happy to add the link, but I'm not sure non-standard key signatures are working properly. Try this: \relative c' { \set Staff.keySignature = #`(((0 . 3) . ,SHARP) ((0 . 5) . ,FLAT) ((0

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:04 PM On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:01:08PM +0800, Graham Breed wrote: I've checked the documentation for key signatures and see no indication that \key b \bayati could possible work though. Say what? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentati

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Graham Breed
2008/12/10 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:01:08PM +0800, Graham Breed wrote: >> I've checked the documentation for key signatures and see no >> indication that \key b \bayati could possible work though. > > Say what? > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/u

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Dec 2008, at 15:04, Graham Percival wrote: You'll want to pay special attention to ly/arabic.ly, and make sure you understand everything that's happening in there. Have you looked it into yourself? - It goes on like bayati = #`( (0 . 0) (1 . ,SEMI-FLAT) (2 . ,FLAT) (3 .

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Dec 2008, at 15:04, Graham Percival wrote: I have no clue (beyond "microtones") what you two have been talking about, but perhaps Hans should take a serious look at what is ALREADY WORKING in 2.11.65 before discussing new features. The guy set it in E24, which is obviously wrong. Hans

(attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:01:08PM +0800, Graham Breed wrote: > I've checked the documentation for key signatures and see no > indication that \key b \bayati could possible work though. Say what? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Arabic-music#Arabic-key-signatures Doc team