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Re: Pitch inflection


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Pitch inflection
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:26:12 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden writes:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, David Kastrup wrote:
>> > as closely as possible I don't want to substitute quarter-tone symbols. Is
>> > there a simple way to insert arrows in place of accidentals? Playback is
>> > not an issue.
>>
>> Quarter notes wouldn't work anyway since you'd not be able to
>> distinguish a quarter note up from e from a quarter note down from f.
>
> Really?  The input { eih'1 feh'1 } seems to work for me, producing
> distinct "e half-sharp" and "f half-flat" notation even though in 24-EDO
> these are the same pitch.

Argh, right.  Different note name.  Should have taken E raised by a
quartertone versus E♯ flattened by a quarter tone.

_Those_ would be indistinguishable.

> It seems like just replacing the "half-sharp" and "half-flat" symbols
> with up and down arrows would be enough to satisfy the original
> poster's request.

See above.

-- 
David Kastrup



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