Re: e in the time of phi and square root of pi tuplet hijinks

2016-11-08 Thread mclaren
Okay, here's the complete version with Unicode chars escaped into the score. A proper Greek phi and pi symbol. Adding Unicode chars turns out to be dead simple in Lilypond. And here's th

Re: e in the time of phi and square root of pi tuplet hijinks

2016-11-08 Thread Hans Ã…berg
> On 8 Nov 2016, at 08:45, mclaren wrote: > > This example eschews numbers for the irrational tuplets in favor of Greek > letters, or at least the Greek names for the symbols. I'm not sure how to > get a Greek font in Lilypond. There are the STIX fonts for use with m

RE: e in the time of phi and square root of pi tuplet hijinks

2016-11-08 Thread Andrew Bernard
You could read the manual. Lilypond supports Unicode, hence Greek. Andrew -Original Message- From: lilypond-user On Behalf Of mclaren Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2016 6:45 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: e in the time of phi and square root of pi tuplet hijinks This example eschews

Re: e in the time of phi and square root of pi tuplet hijinks

2016-11-08 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2016-11-08 08:45, mclaren wrote: Technically speaking, we're also dealing with transcendental tuplets rather than irrationals here, since the square root of pi is a transcendental number (I think. Pi is known to be transcendental, but is the square of pi proven to be transcendental?). Algebr