Re: proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals

[c . m . bryan]

Hello,

I'm excited to see people working on arrowed accidentals.  I could
really use this feature.  I tried editing the feta mf sources, but I
can't seem to get the modified fonts to load into lilypond (2.11.20).
i.e. I've edited "feta11.mf", saved as feta11.svg and replaced the
default one in the lilypond installation, but a lilypond score with
#(set-global-staff-size 11.22)  doesn't display the alteration.  I
don't have to recompile everything, do I?

As an alternative, could I make a small donation to get the arrows
within the next few weeks?  :)

Many thanks,

Chris



On 04/02/07, Trevor Bača <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Maximilian Albert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > motivated by Orm's proposal to make arrowed accidental glyphs available,
> > I have started a few experiments with the feta mf-sources. They seem to
> > be quite promising, and I think that we will soon be able to provide the
> > "arrowed" style as an alternative -- for a suitable meaning of "soon",
> > though, since Orm and I are both rather busy at the moment.
> >
> > However, in the process of playing around there have arisen a few
> > questions. They are currently mostly with regard to the actual glyph
> > design (I haven't tampered much with the engraving code yet).
>
> < snip >
>
> > 7) Since I have never used quartertones and other microtones myself: Is
> > there a difference between, say, a sharp sign with arrow down and a
> > natural sign with arrow up? As far as I understand it, both denote a
> > quartertone above the note they are attached to, right? Would it be
> > desireable to use both of them simultaneously? (If I am not missing
> > something, this might cause a syntax problem when the cascaded approach
> > is used.)
>
> Depends on the composer and possibly even the particular score.
>
> One way of using the arrowed glyps is as you describe with enharmonic
> equivalence.
>
> Another way (and the one that I see more often ... but this may just
> be a side-effect of the particular scores I'm looking at) is that any
> up-arrowed glyph simply means "ever so slightly sharp of whatever
> accidental I'm attached to" and the "ever so slightly flat" for any
> down-arrowed glyph. This allows for, for example, the following
> downward sequence of distinct pitches:
>
> * C natural
> * C down-arrowed natural (just barely flat of C natural, but not as
> flat as C quartertone flat)
> * C up-arrowed quarterflat (just barely sharp of C quarterflat)
> * C quarterflat (precisely one quartertone flat of C natural)
> * C down-arrowed quarterflat (just barely flat of C quarterflat)
> * etc ...
>
>
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> Trevor Bača
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