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Re: Right-to-Left
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Robert Schmaus |
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Re: Right-to-Left |
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Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:45:30 +0100 |
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Von meinem Fliewatüüt gesendet.
> On 3 Mar 2014, at 23:31, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am 03.03.2014 23:06, schrieb Schneidy:
>> Ok !
>>
>> Well, please find herewith a first attempt.
>> It's far from perfect; I still cannot find a way to flip all/part of all
>> grobs, but it does the job !
>> Since I don't know how to read arabic nor arabic music please forgive my
>> poor example
>> Cheers,
>> ~Pierre
>> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n160071/Hosam.png>
>> Hosam.ly <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n160071/Hosam.ly>
>>
>> PS. here's a link you may also be interested in:
>> https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~smrz/elixir-thesis.pdf
>>
>>
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> For what I know the point about right-to-left scripts is that the writing
> isn't simply mirrored, but the glyphs in themselves remain, only to be
> arranged the other way round. Which I think might have to be implemented at a
> much more basic level... (In XeTeX this feature is available, so as far as
> text is concerned, one might take a solution or ideas from there.)
> However this is on text and I don't know anything about music typesetting
> conventions.
Maybe it's possible to achieve that on the postscript level - something like
wrapping the position information around the vertical centre. Although I don't
see how the text/music alignment could be achieved as well ...