Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-22 Thread Behnam Rassi
Hi, I produced a package of things that I could do. I made a TTF Persian font called Vaziri which has the music notations. I also created a separate folder for a version of the font (without Persian text characters) in OTF and Type1 format with all their related files. There is also a PDF

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-20 Thread Kees van den Doel
\override Accidental #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Accidental #'font-name = #??? \override Accidental #'font-size = #? \override Accidental #'text = #(lambda (grob)   (cdr (assoc (ly:grob-property grob 'alteration)    persianStrings)))

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-18 Thread Kees van den Doel
Then in \context add \override Accidental #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Accidental #'font-name = #??? \override Accidental #'font-size = #? \override Accidental #'text = #(lambda (grob) (cdr (assoc (ly:grob-property grob 'alteration)  

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-18 Thread Graham Breed
Kees van den Doel wrote: Then in \context add \override Accidental #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Accidental #'font-name = #??? \override Accidental #'font-size = #? \override Accidental #'text = #(lambda (grob) (cdr (assoc (ly:grob-property grob 'alteration)

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-17 Thread Graham Breed
Kees van den Doel wrote: Hi Folks, I made an init file persian.ly with support for Persian accidentals and scale signatures. The only thing missing is correct glyphs for koron and sori. I include it below. You don't want glyphs. You want strings, because we're not expecting a music font,

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-17 Thread Kees van den Doel
- Original Message - From: Graham Breed gbr...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:06 am Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca Cc: Behnam Rassi beh...@videotron.qc.ca, Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se, lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Feb 2009, at 23:35, Kees van den Doel wrote: If you look at the persian.ly file I sent, you will find the symbol for that I think (a blank). On the other hand if you meant not the glyph but the input suffix... Perhaps an unfortunate choice of word: as a musical function, regardless

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Kees van den Doel
If you look at the persian.ly file I sent, you will find the symbol for that I think (a blank). On the other hand if you meant not the glyph but the input suffix... Perhaps an unfortunate choice of word: as a musical function,  regardless whether it is notated. ...you're right

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 17 Feb 2009, at 00:32, Kees van den Doel wrote: D# E#p F-raised - I just added a sharp to your example. Oh, I see, but non-white key finalis is never used, yet for completeness I'll add it too. Though transposition is not used much now, if a program can do it for you, perhaps.

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I guess you need context more than resolution; here's a couple of scanned pages: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/tmp/koronSori.pdf Thanks. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Feb 2009, at 00:45, Graham Breed wrote: You need to say what interval (as a fraction of a 200 cent whole tone) you want each symbol to correspond to. If one would use E53 (the Pythagorean tuning), how would it work now, after your work of implementing microtonality into LilyPond? If

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Feb 2009, at 03:48, Kees van den Doel wrote: The note immediately following a koron is sometimes (when the interval defined by the note before the koron and after the koron is a minor third, and the note below the finalis in esfahan according to some (but not all) Persian

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Feb 2009, at 03:48, Kees van den Doel wrote: The note immediately following a koron is sometimes (when the interval defined by the note before the koron and after the koron is a minor third, and the note below the finalis in esfahan according to some (but not all) Persian

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Kees van den Doel
- Original Message - From: Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se Date: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:12 am Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca Cc: Behnam Rassi beh...@videotron.qc.ca, Graham Breed gbr...@gmail.com, lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Kees van den Doel
I guess you need context more than resolution; here's a couple of scanned pages: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/tmp/koronSori.pdf Kees - Original Message - From: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:54 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: kvand

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Feb 2009, at 21:43, Kees van den Doel wrote: Might you give some examples of this (which written notes)? E.g., D Ep F (F 20 cent flat, so actually D Ep and Ep F are the same interval) If the musical function or intent is that these intervals should be equal, then the note is F#pp,

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Kees van den Doel
- Original Message - From: Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se Date: Monday, February 16, 2009 1:52 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca Cc: Behnam Rassi beh...@videotron.qc.ca, Graham Breed gbr...@gmail.com, lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Kees van den Doel
On the other hand, if it is lowered an unspecified amount, then when  transposed, you will need another symbol that raises an interval so  that the sum is M-m. If you look at the persian.ly file I sent, you will find the symbol for that I think (a blank). On the other hand

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Feb 2009, at 23:14, Kees van den Doel wrote: E.g., D Ep F (F 20 cent flat, so actually D Ep and Ep F are the same interval) If the musical function or intent is that these intervals should be equal, then the note is F#pp, that is, a double koron. Cute, I never thought of that!

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Kees van den Doel
- From: Behnam Rassi beh...@videotron.qc.ca Date: Monday, February 2, 2009 4:48 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca Cc: Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se, Graham Breed gbr...@gmail.com, lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org Yes of-course send me any relevant

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Behnam Rassi
Yes Kees I downloaded the font and saw the glyphs. This is as far as I can go with my current work too. Except that I will add additional Persian music notations (and perhaps somewhat better looking glyphs!). But I can only produce a font in ttf format, another one perhaps in otf format. I

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Graham Breed
Behnam Rassi wrote: Yes Kees I downloaded the font and saw the glyphs. This is as far as I can go with my current work too. Except that I will add additional Persian music notations (and perhaps somewhat better looking glyphs!). But I can only produce a font in ttf format, another one perhaps

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Behnam Rassi
On 15-Feb-09, at 6:45 PM, Graham Breed wrote: Behnam Rassi wrote: Yes Kees I downloaded the font and saw the glyphs. This is as far as I can go with my current work too. Except that I will add additional Persian music notations (and perhaps somewhat better looking glyphs!). But I can only

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Kees van den Doel
pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Graham Breed gbr...@gmail.com Cc: Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca, Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se, lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org On 15-Feb-09, at 6:45 PM, Graham Breed wrote: Behnam Rassi wrote: Yes Kees I downloaded the font and saw

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I made an init file persian.ly with support for Persian accidentals and scale signatures. The only thing missing is correct glyphs for koron and sori. I include it below. Can someone please provide high-resolution scans of the Persian stuff in action? What I've seen so far are some

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-03 Thread Behnam Rassi
I also hopefully will get some pictures from Iran. The thickness of the lines have also something to do with its harmony with other music notes. So this is not much of an issue. But the basic shaping has something that should be looked more carefully. But generally speaking it is pretty

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Behnam
: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Behnam behnam.ra...@gmail.com Cc: Unicode Mailing List unic...@unicode.org, LilyPond users list lilypond-user@gnu.org, Graham Breed gbr...@gmail.com, Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca On 1 Feb 2009, at 22:35, Behnam wrote: LilyPond now has

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Kees van den Doel
standard fonts I'd have thought if we're only talking two new glyphs. Though there are some variations, I think they semantically the same.  The variation used by Farhat is for koron like an inverted flat b, but  with the loop have the form , and for the sori, a sharp # but with 

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Hans Aberg
On 2 Feb 2009, at 20:58, Kees van den Doel wrote: I have several shelves of Persian music books and I have never seen that variation. The sori is always a rotated = with an on it, and the koron akways has the '' body. That is good to know - I think what you say is best, being most

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Kees van den Doel
On 2 Feb 2009, at 20:58, Kees van den Doel wrote: I have several shelves of Persian music books and I have never seen  that variation. The sori is always a rotated = with an on it, and the koron akways  has the '' body. That is good to know - I think what you say is best,

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Hans Aberg
On 2 Feb 2009, at 12:34, Graham Breed wrote: Do you what types of fonts that LilyPond can use? - Behnam Rassi he says he only knows how to make music fonts. There are two ways Lilypond loads its fonts: music fonts and Pango fonts. The music fonts start out as Metafont and get converted to

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Graham Breed
Hans Aberg wrote: Graham, Do you what types of fonts that LilyPond can use? - Behnam Rassi he says he only knows how to make music fonts. There are two ways Lilypond loads its fonts: music fonts and Pango fonts. The music fonts start out as Metafont and get converted to OTF along with

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Kees van den Doel
|| | || | it indicates a small grace note of undefined pitch. There are some symbols for tar/setar and santur as well, let me know if you want to see any. Kees - Original Message - From: Behnam Rassi beh...@videotron.qc.ca Date: Monday, February 2, 2009 2:46 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Kees van den Doel
Really all that's lacking is the koron and sori. A small o is fine for the tahrir, we have that already. Kees - Original Message - From: Behnam Rassi beh...@videotron.qc.ca Date: Monday, February 2, 2009 4:48 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Kees van den Doel kvand

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-02 Thread Graham Breed
Behnam Rassi wrote: What I'm not clear about is that you don't need just a font containing two glyphs for Sori and Koron right? You need a font containing all necessary glyphs for music writing, including Sori and Koron. So I have to add them to an existing font. Did I understand it

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-01 Thread Hans Aberg
On 1 Feb 2009, at 22:35, Behnam wrote: LilyPond now has the capability to typeset these, if one can get hold of glyphs, and produce correctly tuned MIDI files. I may be able to produce the glyph (with some additional studies) but I can only support you in getting the code for it. It

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-01 Thread Kees van den Doel
Here's an example from a Persian music book. Kees - Original Message - From: Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009 2:14 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Behnam behnam.ra...@gmail.com Cc: Unicode Mailing List unic...@unicode.org, LilyPond users list

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-01 Thread Kees van den Doel
...@math.su.se Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009 2:14 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Behnam behnam.ra...@gmail.com Cc: Unicode Mailing List unic...@unicode.org, LilyPond users list  lilypond-user@gnu.org, Graham Breed gbr...@gmail.com, Kees van  den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-01 Thread Kees van den Doel
. Kees - Original Message - From: Behnam behnam.ra...@gmail.com Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009 3:16 pm Subject: Re: Persian musical koron and sori To: Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca Cc: Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se, Unicode Mailing List unic...@unicode.org, LilyPond users list lilypond