Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Hello all, This email is an attempt to clarify some outstanding issues regarding support for microtonal notation in Lilypond. It's being written in response to recent discussion with Graham Percival on Lilypond Issue 694: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=694 To begin with,

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Sep 2010, at 00:50, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Hence why I say that the issue of effective microtonal support still requires action at the code level, and is not simply a matter of better documentation ... :-( I made a post about this issue last week, but there were no responses.

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
On 09/20/2010 10:47 AM, Hans Aberg wrote: On 20 Sep 2010, at 00:50, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Hence why I say that the issue of effective microtonal support still requires action at the code level, and is not simply a matter of better documentation ... :-( I made a post about this issue last

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Sep 2010, at 12:08, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Hence why I say that the issue of effective microtonal support still requires action at the code level, and is not simply a matter of better documentation ... :-( I made a post about this issue last week, but there were no responses.

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
On 09/20/2010 12:23 PM, Hans Aberg wrote: I saw the post but was not sure quite how to interpret it. I expected someone to ask for details. In the past, I discussed part of it with Graham Breed, who did some LilyPond microtonal implementation, but perhaps he is not working on it anymore. I

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: *A key assumption of this approach is that there is a one-to-one correspondence between accidental and alteration value.*  This clearly holds for conventional Western 12-tone notation.  However, it does _not_

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Sep 2010, at 14:48, Joseph Wakeling wrote: I saw the post but was not sure quite how to interpret it. I expected someone to ask for details. In the past, I discussed part of it with Graham Breed, who did some LilyPond microtonal implementation, but perhaps he is not working on it

Doc: NR 2.2.1 keyboards, staff changes

2010-09-20 Thread Keith E OHara
Friends of LilyPond, I am suggesting a new @knownissues for the Notation Reference 2.2.1. The corresponding bug tracker issues are 1043, 439, and 36. If issue 1043 is solved, the second paragraph of my suggestion will become obsolete. I wrote the text below based on observed behavior of

Docs, keyboards, staff changes, workaround

2010-09-20 Thread Keith E OHara
Friends of LilyPond, I am suggesting a new @knownissues for the Notation Reference 2.2.1. The corresponding bug tracker issues are 1043, 439, and 36. If issue 1043 is solved, the second paragraph of my suggestion would be come obsolete. I wrote the text below based on observed behavior

Files for the first phase of Czech translation of documentation

2010-09-20 Thread Pavel Fric
Hi, Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain): From now on, please keep this conversation in the translators list. Could you provide link to this mailing list? I send the files in attachment. The .po file was sent already before. The template was taken from German translation files, so I didn't handle

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
On 09/20/2010 03:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: Hmm. This is similar to the distinction between cis and des, correct? Yes, exactly, it's an enharmonic equivalence. Am I also correct in assuming that d-3/4 is not sufficient? Also, is there a frequency difference between c+1/4 and cis-1/4 ?

Re: NR 2.2.1 keyboards, staff changes

2010-09-20 Thread Trevor Daniels
Keith E OHara wrote Monday, September 20, 2010 12:38 AM I am suggesting a new @knownissues for the Notation Reference 2.2.1. The corresponding bug tracker issues are 1043, 439, and 36. If issue 1043 is solved, the second paragraph of my suggestion will become obsolete. I wrote the

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 09/20/2010 03:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: 2) make a scan of some published music that uses this notation.  This will immediately silence anybody who wants to argue (as I somewhat did) that a single

Re: Files for the first phase of Czech translation of documentation

2010-09-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/9/19 Pavel Fric pavelf...@seznam.cz: Hi, Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain): From now on, please keep this conversation in the translators list. Could you provide link to this mailing list? http://lists.lilynet.net/translations/ I have one question. There are lines with:

Re: Files for the first phase of Czech translation of documentation

2010-09-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/9/20 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: @ref{Textový vstup} @unnumberedsec Textový vstup @translationof Text input and on other place: @ref{Textovém vstupu} Does it matter? This problem - difference between text strings in braces is only on some places, not all. The solution

Re: Files for the first phase of Czech translation of documentation

2010-09-20 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Pavel, Francisco has already replied to you while I was writing this, so the reply about the node name issue w.r.t. cases in Czech is just a rewording of his last reply. Il giorno dom, 19/09/2010 alle 15.36 +0200, Pavel Fric ha scritto: I send the files in attachment. The .po file was sent

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
On 09/20/2010 05:27 PM, Graham Percival wrote: For arrowed quarter-tones the notation is described (and recommended) in Kurt Stone's book Music Notation in the Twentieth Century. Excellent reference! That book is frequently quoted on this list, so this should settle any question of is it

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: On 09/20/2010 03:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: Hmm. This is similar to the distinction between cis and des, correct? Yes, exactly, it's an enharmonic equivalence. Am I also correct in assuming that d-3/4 is not sufficient? Also, is

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Sep 2010, at 18:08, Joseph Wakeling wrote: One scan should be fine. The first step is to convince people that the representation needs to be extended, and Stone should be sufficient for that. The next step is for somebody actually code it. Sure. I'll try and follow up with Hans

Re: Files for the first phase of Czech translation of documentation

2010-09-20 Thread Pavel Fric
Hi, thanks for answer, so the e-mail adress, I sent the files is good for translation issues and I will send the answers there, not directly to developers. :-) I think, that I am the only one in this moment, who cares about bringing LilyPond to Czech language. I´ve already worked on

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:25 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: Indeed, d-3/4 is not sufficient [1]: in arrow quarter-tone notation you want to be able to indicate quarter-tone raising or lowering of any of the 12 standard tones. One

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Wols Lists
On 20/09/10 14:41, Hans Aberg wrote: As a related issue, have you considered how (different kinds of) transposition would be handled in your pitch scheme? This is much simpler: the linear combinations are vectors that you just add. For example, if a, b, c, ... are represented by 0, M, m+M,

Re: [PATCH] Add a way to override the part-combination decision

2010-09-20 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Freitag, 17. September 2010, 14:52:50 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: So, you think we should rather extend the parser to cater for that feature? (Or do you know any way to insert an event in simple_music

Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation

2010-09-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Sep 2010, at 18:00, Wols Lists wrote: As a related issue, have you considered how (different kinds of) transposition would be handled in your pitch scheme? This is much simpler: the linear combinations are vectors that you just add. For example, if a, b, c, ... are represented by 0, M,

Re: [PATCH] Web: Easier editing: Add link to Abjad website.

2010-09-20 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham Percival wrote: -...@subheading Other programs can export LilyPond code +...@subheading Other programs that can export LilyPond code This makes it sound as though the previous programs can export lilypond code. Only Denemo falls into that category; all the other programs are text

Re: Possible fix for #372. (issue2228042)

2010-09-20 Thread n . puttock
Reviewers: carl.d.sorensen_gmail.com, Message: On 2010/09/19 08:29:23, Carl wrote: As currently implemented, this patch fails when \partial is called in the middle of a measure. I'm not sure \partial *should* work when called in the middle of a measure, but we have plenty of history on

Re: [PATCH] Add a way to override the part-combination decision

2010-09-20 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Montag, 20. September 2010, um 20:25:30 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer My only problem now is that when I add definitions like (so that one can also force other types than the pre-defined ones): I am not sure. The warning comes from

Re: [PATCH]: Doc: LM 3.2: Entering voices in the correct order.

2010-09-20 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham Percival wrote: Could you stick the next version of this patch on Reitveld?  I think there's enough interest, and enough opinions on it, that this would be worthwhile. I've not changed anything since last post, but here it is: http://codereview.appspot.com/2226045/ - Mark

targeting specific context ID's from within \layout?

2010-09-20 Thread Mark Polesky
% Feel free to compile the whole message... % % Is there a way to target a specific context (eg. one of % several Staff contexts) from within the \layout block? % Here's one case (of many) where I think this would be % useful: \version 2.13.34 %% music for the individual parts: violin = { c''1 }