Re: improving our contributing tools and workflow

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <address@hidden>
To: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>; "Phil Holmes" 
<address@hidden>; "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
Cc: "LilyPond Development Team" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: improving our contributing tools and workflow


> On 26/09/13 16:37, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Almost exactly what I was about to reply, but Phil beat me to it!  In 
> > fact I
> > think I remember helping you add the Contemporary music headings some
> > time ago, or was it someone else?
>
> The section originates with me but I got diverted into trying to create a 
> more elegant solution for how to rewrite accidentals in transposed music. 
> It was all related to the need for an effective chromatic transposition 
> solution that also worked well with arbitrary microtonal accidentals.
>
> I was also rather discouraged by the fact that the quarter-tone arrow 
> notation issue didn't find a solution -- see:
> https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1278

I think it's waiting for someone to propose how it could be represented in 
LilyPond.  If _someone_ were to do that, it might progress - it was only a 
few months ago it was last looked at.

Good job I didn't get discouraged by the problems with piano pedal notation.

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Phil Holmes