Re: GDP: 2.3.2.1 Harp

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Monday, May 12, 2008 9:48 AM
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 09:13:27 +0100
> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Graham Percival wrote Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:44 PM
> > > I've commented it out;
> > > if/when somebody takes this section, they can decide whether to
> > > definitely delete it or not.
> >
> > The actual content needs to be retained (and perhaps expanded
> > and linked to a glossary item to explain what it is); but
> > the location that needs to be redetermined.
>
> At the risk of being as cheeky with you as I am with Valentin,

You wouldn't dare!

> what about NR 1.1.4 Shape note heads?  ;)

This certainly covers sacred harp and other shape heads (although
now I've looked at it the example could be improved to show at
least a seven-tone scale, the better to illustrate the difference
between Aiken and Sacred Harp notation.)  I'd be happy to leave it
there with links to it from the 2.1.1.1 References for vocal music
section.

The drawback is this makes no association with solfège within the
vocal section.  But as this isn't yet supported perhaps this is not
important.  As you suggest below, we can simply say, "Solfège isn't
(yet) supported" somewhere in the vocal section.

> > > IMO, yes.  (although in this specific case, it might be better to
> > > direct people to the keyboard section)
> >
> > Harps certainly have specialist notation but it is not
> > currently supported by LilyPond.

I should have said it is not *all* currently supported by
LilyPond.  I was thinking of the harp pedal symbols.  But
quite a lot of the harp notation can be done already (search
for harp in the -user archives) and pointers to these could
all be grouped under a references section.

> In that case, it's IMO even more important to keep a specific Harp
> section -- we can mention these unsupported things.  It also might
> prompt people to create those things, just like the bagpipe and
> accordion stuff (which AFAIK has no special code-features; they're
> all done with "extra" .ly files).
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

Trevor