Re: arabic tabs?

[BB]

Indeeed the code is helpful for my purposes to rember oud fingering! I 
can produce midi files as well. (First I had some problems, no idea what 
I did wrong, started again from scratch and it worked.) I am 
enthusiastic with this extension!!!

One (may be) problem is that one cannot mix the spellings, i. e. cis and 
cs. I can live with the "new" spelling of accidentals with your code and 
find it very pleasing and shorter as well. But I ( and for shure many 
others) do have "old" code, the want still to use and an extension or 
mix would be nice. A conversion is tedious. "is" and "s" ( as in as) is 
present in many other parts of code so a simple "replace all" is 
unrewarding. If the developers can be convinced to integrate this code 
additionally to the old way for simultaneously use is very questionable.

To summarize, I am very satisfied with that extension and could not find 
any bugs in my first attampts, beside the "incompatibility" problem 
described above.

Just for completeness of information:
In the arabic world there are different areas/schools/traditional lines 
that play notes slightly higher or lower than notated. For that there 
will be used arrows up or down in the music. For instance see
http://maqamworld.com/maqamat/sikah.html
at the bottom of the page "Maqam Sikah Baladi" you see such arrows. I 
think that compares to the "blue note" in the Blues, where the notation 
will give just an idea.

Maybe there is a oposibility to add such arrows to the sheet?

Persian qauartertones are generally played flatter, Turkish quartertones 
generally are played sharper, arabic ones are in the middle. But that is 
not a question of the notation. That is a regional difference in taste. 
Even in arabic music there is a west arabic and an east arabic style.

Well, I myself am just happy to find the correct quartertone in playing 
oud, regardless of persian/turkish/arabic! The tabs will help me in this!

Thanks again and have a nice weekend,
BB


On 13.08.2015 21:52, Thomas Morley wrote:
> Glad to hear my coding works for you.
> Though, I've no knowledge in microtonal music at all.
> All I did was to let the TabStaff print positions like "1½" etc.
> I've even no clue, whether the result is correct and would need you
> and others for feedback about it.
>
> But if you have a look into makam.ly you see how pitches and names are
> defined. You could do similiar to create own names and pitches.
> TabStaff_should_  then display them correctly, if not report it.
> No idea about midi, though...