Re: quartertone accidentals

[Kees van den Doel]

> > Is there a way to use quartertone accidentals for typesetting Eastern
> > music? I need key signatures with quartertones as well as single
> > accidentals.
> > The Persian 'sori' and 'koron' symbols look like  '>'  and 'p' ...
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not supported at the moment, but has
> been on the TODO list for quite some time, see
> http://appel.lilypond.org/wiki/?LilyPondTodo
> 
> It's not that difficult, though. Now, the pitches are handled
> internally by integers counting semitones. To support quarter 
> tones, we could simply change the internal representation by
> a factor of two. It would probably involve quite many of the
> source code files, though.

Wouldn't it be better to change them to floats? I can imagine some people
would also like 1/3 tones, 1/8 tones etc perhaps.

Thanks for the info.

Kees