Helmholtz-Ellis accidentals

[Hans Åberg]

> On 21 Oct 2018, at 10:56, Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> If I understand it correctly, the main reason for switching to Bravura are
> missing Emmentaler accidental glyphs (obviously the multi-arrowed ones, if I
> look at your definition files).
> 
> Incidentally, I'm planning to fill in the Emmentaler gaps in the (very) near
> future directly after issue #3356 has been fixed (in two weeks latest).

What is the state of these accidentals? —This notation recently came up on the 
users list.


> In the course of issue #3356 "add triple flats/sharps" I've unified and
> considerably generalized the Metafont accidental glyph definitions so that
> it is now possible to create a whole variety of arrowed accidentals (the
> existing standard arrows as well as new stacked smaller arrows, "black"
> flats (with filled-in counters), etc.
> The Metafont overhaul was, among others, the reason why it took so long (but
> it's in the final internal testing phase now, struggling with
> spacing/positioning issues for big-arrow-up doublesharp).
> 
> The new glyph names for the tiny-arrowed accidentals (just the ones you
> currently use are mentioned here) will be
> 
>  accidentals.flatflat.1up
>  accidentals.flatflat.2up
>  accidentals.flatflat.1down
>  accidentals.flatflat.2down
>  accidentals.flat.1up
>  accidentals.flat.2up
>  accidentals.flat.1down
>  accidentals.flat.2down
>  accidentals.natural.1up
>  accidentals.natural.2up
>  accidentals.natural.1down
>  accidentals.natural.2down
>  accidentals.sharp.1up
>  accidentals.sharp.2up
>  accidentals.sharp.1down
>  accidentals.sharp.2down
>  accidentals.doublesharp.1up
>  accidentals.doublesharp.2up
>  accidentals.doublesharp.1down
>  accidentals.doublesharp.2down
>