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Re:Lilypond help - arbitrary accidental glyphs


From: Graham Breed
Subject: Re:Lilypond help - arbitrary accidental glyphs
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:52:15 +0000
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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.

The latest code is at https://bitbucket.org/x31eq/microlily and fixes some problems with Lilypond upgrades but what's on the website is probably fine for you.

Anyway, what you want looks simpler than either the Sagittal JI or tripod code. Maybe the best thing's to send me the font and I'll sort it out. It can then be the example for the next person to want to do this kind of thing.

Which of the Fokker symbols is missing from the standard Lilypond set?

There seems to be a problem: Graham originally retuned pitchnamesEnglish, but that 
is no longer used in english.ly, which merely invokes \language ?english".

There's no need for pitchnamesEnglish any more.

Also, there LilyPond has a separate system for key signatures, so if one wants 
working microtonal such, one is essentially stuck with equal temperaments a 
multiple of 12.

I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. But at least conventional key signatures will be retuned by regular.ly.


          Graham




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