Re: Arabic music half flat accidental shape

[Hans Aberg]

On 8 Feb 2008, at 15:02, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2008 schrieb Hans Aberg:
> > > A
> > > half flat in Arabic music is displayed as a b but with a slash
> > > across (It is
> > > hard to describe the shape precisely). Is it possible to access  
> > > such a
> > > symbol, and if not, is it possible to add it in the future?
> >
> > Is this what they use on
> >    http://www.maqamworld.com/
>
> It seems to me that this is exactly the accidentals.flat.slash  
> character in
> Lilypond's feta font:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/The-Feta- 
> font

[For some reason, the glyphs do not show in Safari - Firefox is fine,  
though.]

> In this case, you don't have to draw the glyph yourself, just use  
> this glyph
> instead of accidentals.mirroredflat for a quarter-flat tone!

I think so, too, though the design of the half-flat at Maqam World is  
somewhat denser.

The Persian koron and sori are amiss, though there are some Turkish  
accidentals.

Timidity can retune MIDI-files (with the -Z option), which can be  
created using Scala, and also, I have written a Haskell program  
creating such retuning files for 53-ET, in case somebody wants to  
experiment with LilyPond MIDI files.

Looking back, LilyPond has some microtone capabilities, but I do not  
know how it works. Is there some info available about it somewhere?

  Hans Åberg