Re: proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals

[Mats Bengtsson]

I don't really see the problem. What you already have proposed is to
use property settings to change between the different styles. To save
some typing, it will then be easy to add macros such as
\arrowQuarterToneAccidentals (please make up something shorter)
and \...whatever, to easily change between these different styles.
Of course, the properties to specify the note head style and the
accidental style will be separate, so there's no coupling between
them (unless you want to make macros that set both at the same time).

  /Mats

Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we use additional simple up/down arrows placed left to normal
> accidentals, giving a concise way to specify the complete eighth tone
> scale. The glyphs are actually included in the font. This would make
> even more changing of alteration syntax necessary, though.
>
> I don't mind to be able to combine both ways of specifying microtones
> within one score, but I wouldn't know, where to stop. Apart from
> Victor's proposed signs there also exist blackened accidentals... The
> last thing I had in mind was starting another "bikeshed", how Han-Wen
> put it.
>
> --
> Orm
>
> Am 28. Januar 2007, 14:20 Uhr (-0500) schrieb v!ctor address@hidden:
>   
> > I agree %100 with the addition of accidentals with arrows. However, I also
> > think that both, the standard 1/4 and 3/4 tone signs Lilypond already has
> > and the new ones should both be accessible, and, ideally, within the same
> > "notehead-style". Otherwise combining them in a single score would require
> > one to be changing styles inside the score, which would not be ideal in that
> > case.
> > Since we are into adding new accidental signs, I would also actually like
> > the inclusion of arrows (up and down) not only the stadard accidentals Orm
> > suggests, but also on the 1/4 and 3/4 sharp and flat signs lilypond already
> > has. This would allow for a finer pitch resolution.
> > Here's a png of what i'm thinking. Pay no attention to the style though;
> > this is secondary.
> >     
>
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