Re: The hel-arabic.ly file story...

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Could someone clarify: while hel-arabic.ly has this line that
> includes arabic.ly , what are they getting out of this? Some more
> key signatures and keyAlterationOrder?

>From MR 1783:

  The file @file{arabic.ly} sets the note language to Italian (or
  Solfege), since that is the modern standard in Arabic music and is
  widely adopted among Arabic musicians.  [...]

  The @file{hel-arabic.ly} file allows English note names to be used,
  but with customized Italian-like suffixes for alterations.  [...]

> Should all key signatures for the various maqams simply go only into
> arabic.ly ?

Not sure about that.


    Werner