Re: Issue 937 in lilypond: Support for right-to-left music

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Comment #1 on issue 937 by mmaorders: Support for right-to-left music
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=937

Thanks, Patrick, for posting this. I have to add that RTL scripted  
languages don't
hyphenate. This, of course, will be a problem for syllables in lyrics.  
Attached is
some code that Jonathan Kew wrote to hack a Kashida "stretching" that is  
common to
Arabic, Syriac, Farsi, etc, which don't hyphenate. The file can be run with  
the
current version of XeTeX/XeLaTeX.

Briefly, the Kashida code stretches the *scripted words* instead of the  
space between
words (TeX calls it "glue") --- and the glyph used to stretch words is  
called
"tatwil", I think (on MS Windows' Syriac keyboard, it's shift+J). That  
would be the
way to typeset the lyrics in syllables. I hope later to send an image of  
music done
this way.

TIA.

fr. michael gilmary, mma

Attachments:
        Kashida.sty  1.9 KB

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