On Fri, 2016-07-22 at 16:13 -0400, Jim Garrett wrote: > Hello Denemo community, > > I've recently learned how to use makam.ly to typeset Turkish music > with Lilypond. I'm happy writing Lilypond files directly, but I know > others who would be would be much more inclined to use a GUI. Is it > currently possible to use Denemo to typeset Turkish music, and if so, > what would be entailed?
Well, Denemo may well be one of the most customizable programs out there, but whether it will help you typeset Turkish music would depend on how much commonality there is with Western music. The basic thing to grasp is that while it is trivial to make Denemo emit the correct LilyPond syntax that isn't really the point; the crucial question is whether Denemo can display what you have input in a way that is helpful. Again you can alter what Denemo draws for any object that you enter (any note, chord, marking ...) but the further the conventions differ the harder it would get (think of making a word processor work with Chinese characters from bottom right to top left...). This example http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/source/Documentation/snippets/world-music \include "makam.ly" \relative c' { \set Staff.keySignature = #`((6 . ,(- KOMA)) (3 . ,BAKIYE)) c4 cc db fk gbm4 gfc gfb efk fk4 db cc c } would indicate that you might want to override the appearance of the key signature and the accidentals. The first already done in other contexts the second could be done treating them as custom ornaments. It would also be possible to change the MIDI output so that they sounded the microtones, there is a field for re-writing what should be output, that would require a good understanding of the MIDI spec - there is an example of historical tunings in the Open->Open Example menu which would be relevant for that. I'll be happy to guide you through this... Richard _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
