Greetings everyone,
I discovered LilyPond recently and it seems to be what I have been
looking for: LaTeX for music. All the WYSIWYG score editors I tried
turned out to be a big mess after a while, and MusicTex just is too
low-level. I haven't even installed LilyPond yet; I first have to
update egcs and guile on my Linux box. But it looks so good that it
just has to work :-)
My main musical interest is playing arabic music on my oud, and that
makes me wonder how easy it would be to extend LilyPond to deal with
arabic music. The two major features needed are
- Two more accidentals, half-flat and half-sharp, to cover quarter tones.
- More general keys. Ideally any combination of flats, sharps, and their
half variants should be possible, but a fixed catalogue of predefined
combinations would do, it would just have to be very long (there
are about 140 modes plus transpositions!).
I am not afraid of programming, but before working through tons of
source code I'd like to make sure that these modifications are doable
without rewriting everything from scratch. And I wouldn't mind
getting hints on where to start looking at. Or, better yet, hear
that somebody is already working on such a project...
Konrad.
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