Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-10-01 Thread Adam Griggs
Hi Werner, Andrew, Aaron, Yes, my intended use case is indeed lyrics, editorial footers and informational taglines. In the case of the attached .png, I'm using it to indicate which kana get stressed and, by omission, which kana to glide over. Pardon my poor editorial judgement: this is a WIP.

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-30 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Does that idea gazump my offer to put it in OLL? I'd really like to > see it there. LSR and OLL are certainly not exclusive :-) I know that your code fits well to the former, but I have no idea about the latter. Werner

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-30 Thread Andrew Bernard
Does that idea gazump my offer to put it in OLL? I'd really like to see it there. If people have usability issues with OLL, what are they? Let me know and I will work to address that. It's already easy to use in my view (but that's just me). Andrew On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 15:43, Werner LEMBERG

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The new \text-emphasis markup command mostly maps to the CSS style > of the same name but does not have full feature parity. Of note, > the markup command will apply the emphasis mark to any character, > whereas the CSS standard says to omit marks for certain character > classes (Z* and P*, in

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-29 Thread Andrew Bernard
Put in openlilylib Aaron! I can add it if you like. Andrew On 29/09/2020 11:19 pm, Aaron Hill wrote: I could not resist.  (:

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-29 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-09-28 10:43 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: Since these markings would presumably be infrequent in your scores, sticking with dots for the moment, you could always make a markup consisting of the character in a column with a dot/etc glyph. Roll your own. Tedious yes. You could write a markup

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Yes, but I can exactly see that one of the few places > Japanese/Chinese emphasis dots may be used is in lyrics, which I > guess is the OP's intent. Also having a (minor) Sinology background, I've never seen emphasis dots in scores from Taiwan, including music using the jiǎnpǔ notation. I

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-29 Thread Andrew Bernard
Yes, but I can exactly see that one of the few places Japanese/Chinese emphasis dots may be used is in lyrics, which I guess is the OP's intent. I was going to make the same point however, that lilypond is not really the right tool to be attempting complex and extensive CJK typesetting. Not in

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I would like to request an implementation for text emphasis points > native to East Asian scripts. Please give an example how this is used. And with “example” I mean a real-word example like existing scores. Note also that LilyPond is *not* suited for large textual works. Support for text is

Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-28 Thread Andrew Bernard
Gosh, a very LARGE can of wriggling worms, and very interesting worms indeed. A question, say you restrict yourself to emphasis dots for simplicity, does OpenType support this at the moment? I am unaware of that. Else, adding that to lilypond seems like a big project. I am a serious student of

Request for East Asian emphasis points

2020-09-28 Thread Adam M. Griggs
Hello, I would like to request an implementation for text emphasis points native to East Asian scripts. Please refer to the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_point https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#composition_of_emphasis_dots ^ specific to Japanese usage I understand that this is a