Re: ET microtonal notation

[Simon Albrecht]

On 23.02.2016 18:59, Hans Åberg wrote:
> > On 23 Feb 2016, at 18:43, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 23.02.2016 15:59, Hans Åberg wrote:
> > > > On 23 Feb 2016, at 15:11, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > It would be easy to make ET typesetting with correct MIDI, plus some,
> > > > > if the LilyPond distribution included the files regular.ly,
> > > > > definitions.ily, smufldata.ily plus the SMuFL font Bravura.
> > > > <rant>
> > > It was cc’ed Simon Albrecht, who on the LilyPond User list suggested that to 
> > > post better suggestions on this list [1].
> > Please have a look at 
> > <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/documentation-suggestions.html>.
> The current documentation would become obsolete. It would not be difficult to 
> add a few files common ET’s.
>
> > > The first file is mentioned here [2]. The others come from [3-4], also 
> > > mentioned in that discussion.
> > >
> > > 1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00569.html
> > > 2. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00627.html
> > > 3. http://www.openlilylib.org/
> > > 4. http://www.smufl.org/
> > Still, it’s up to anyone to guess this. And ‘regular.ly’ or ‘definitions.ily’ 
> > (really!) are quite commonplace filenames. I don’t know how many dozen files 
> > called ‘definitions.ily’ might be in OpenLilyLib.
> I’ll send you them in private mail

There’s no point in that. Personally, I have no interest in Arabic music.

> > So I’m sorry, but speaking of a ‘rant’ is somewhat of an overstatement.
> > In the ly-user post of mine that you quoted I spoke of a ‘concise’ request. 
> > Perhaps you try and make one.
> Just have the files and font included in the LilyPond distribution, as they 
> seem to work.

‘They seem to work’ is not a criterion for inclusion in LilyPond. The 
question is if they meet standards of both notation and coding _and_ are 
of sufficiently general interest. And most importantly they will only be 
included in LilyPond if someone does the coding and documentation and 
uploads a patch, following the standard procedures. If no developer is 
interested in doing so, then it will not happen – that’s how LilyPond 
development works.

Best, Simon