Re: Remove arabic.ly from common note name languages. (issue2755041)

[Hans Aberg]

On 27 Oct 2010, at 14:53, address@hidden wrote:

> I think it's best if we treat non-Western stuff as "notations and
> tunings" rather than just "note names".  Here's a new patch set,  
> please
> have a look.

As it now stands in the manual, it looks out of context to me. So it  
should be changed, I think:

The situation in world music is the same as in CPP: there is a set of  
pitches that strictly speaking can refer to different tunings. Then  
people may choose different ways to name those notes. For example in  
gamelan music, some may use English and others Indonesian names.

So strictly speaking, I think there should be headers: CPP, Arabic,  
Persian, Turkish, etc., and under each, there might be one or more  
files producing those.

Also, I prefer CPP (Common Practice Period) to "Western", as it  
becomes complicated to explain Western music traditions outside CPP.