Re: Writing notes in Pythagorean tuning in microlily

[Hans Åberg]

> On 24 Nov 2019, at 11:57, Graham Breed <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 24/11/2019, Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> [amended]
>> An extended meantone temperament has two generators, which traditionally is
>> the octave and the the fifth, but one can change basis and take any two,
>> such as the minor and major second. LilyPond uses the sharp and the major
>> second. Two generators is necessary for correct typesetting of the staff
>> system. In Turkish, Arabic, and Persian music, one would need three
>> generators each, but LilyPond cannot handle that.
> 
> LilyPond can easily handle multiple generators with alternative pitch
> names.  I've had "tripod notation" support with 3 generators for
> several years.  It does mean alternative pitch names, though, rather
> than regular transformations of (any of) the standard names.  Or
> Scheme code to retune pitches, like I did for Sagital JI and Extended
> Helmholtz-Ellis.

Whatever rational numbers assigned to the accidentals and how many, one only 
gets one generator, unless there has been an extension lately. Perhaps you 
expect not transposing too far?