Re: Diatonic notation system

[Hans Aberg]

On 10 Dec 2008, at 12:47, Graham Breed wrote:

> > I did it for E53 - it did not work. I attach a file.
>
> No you didn't.  You did something else in E53 and that didn't work.
> There are still no transpositions.  There are some attempts to get the
> MIDI output to work.  Did it?  It looks like you're on the right
> track.
>
> I wouldn't expect transpositions to work with this file because you've
> defined your flat according to an equal temperament -- exactly what I
> told you not to do.

E53 is an ET.

> You've also specified fine tunings and not
> included them in the accidental lookup table so I wouldn't expect
> printed output to work even without the transpositions.  Maybe these
> problems can be fixed but it will still mean different init files for
> printing and MIDI.
>
> Define the flat as a half step (-1/2) and the other accidentals
> relative to it.  Then transpositions might work.

That is already done in the Turkish files. And I do not thing  
transpositions will work when pushed over an m, get of by an 1/18 of  
an M.

Let's leave this topic.

  Hans