On 21 Jan 2004, at 21:55, Jeff Senn wrote:
On Jan 21, 2004, at 12:49 PM, John Chambers wrote:This does seem like a possibly desirable use of the substitution-type "macro". I've seen microtone notation that uses an assortment of symbols. If we allowed notation like ^3/24, people might not always want to type all that.
John- What did you mean by this? Do you refer to the !something! notation?
Or is there some *real* macro proposal?
Not just a proposal but a working implementation in use in BarFly for many years. John's suggestion would work. Given the macro definition:
m: Pn = ^3/24n
any note marked with a P would be rendered as ^3/24, and I could have the program interpret that as a real pitch.
Not that I think that a particularly useful approach, since as Jack says, musicians who use these pitches don't think of them as fractional; we really should not adopt something which is totally at odds with existing musical practice.
Phil Taylor
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