Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

[Graham Breed]

2008/12/10 Hans Aberg <address@hidden>:

> Now, everyone agrees that in Arab music, the intermediate pitch isn't that -
> in fact the guy who write it said he was taught to lower it, which agree
> with the values Farhat uses in Persian music (using koron and sori; see
> below).

Yes, but nobody agrees on what that intermediate pitch *is* do they?
And Arab pop music really does use equally tempered synthesizers
however much the purists may object.

> There are two problems: does the E24 setting in transposing (or choosing a
> key) risk say E- (half-flat) be confused with D#+ (sharp and half-flat). -
> This I do not know, because it depends on how LilyPond computes it.

Let's assume it works fine because otherwise standard notation would
break as well.


Now, my question is, why is that clever workaround for the Arabic
half-flat symbol in there when it could be replaced globally?  The
documentation doesn't give any case where you'd want to use the
Tartini half-flat.  In my impetuosity I've created a new init file
with code modeled on makam.ly, and attached it to this message.


                          Graham

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