Re: Using LilyPond with Arabic music

[Trevor Daniels]

Joseph

Many thanks for this.

I know nothing of Arabic music, but something
along the lines of your documentation would
be a useful addition to NR 2 Specialist
notation.

A couple of points, though:

If the example is copied from the pdf the fancy
quote sign on the two re's has to be replaced
with a straight apostrophe.

And more seriously, it seems that semi-flats
in \key, as shown in the example Semai Muhayer,
are incompatible with \midi {}.  If both are
present the following error occurs in 2.11.49:

Interpreting music... C:/Program 
Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily-library.scm:135:5:
In procedure ly:book-process in expression (process-procedure book paper 
...):
C:/Program 
Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily-library.scm:135:5: Wrong 
type (expecting exact integer): -3/2

The non-integer varies depending on the
precise key signature.

I guess this is a bug, but as it is rather
obscure perhaps you or someone else could
verify it.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "josephHarfouch" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 1:50 PM
Subject: Using LilyPond with Arabic music


> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18194950/arabic.tex arabic.tex
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18194950/arabic.pdf arabic.pdf
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18194950/arabic.ly arabic.ly
>
> Hello,
>
> Some time ago, I put a question on the forum regarding using Arabic music
> with LilyPond, and I got some very helpful advice regarding the notating 
> of
> half-flats and half-sharps. I have created an "arabic.ly" file based on 
> that
> advice, and to add arabic maqams (modes or scales).I also created
> documentation of how to use LilyPond with Arabic music which I'm attaching
> and I would like to share with others, in the hope of encouraging the use 
> of
> LilyPond with Arabic music. I would be happy to get feedback to improve 
> this
> documentation, and very happy to share it with others, for example if you
> think it is useful to make "arabic.ly" part of your product in the future,
> and/or to put the attached documentation on your web site, or as an 
> appendix
> to your documentation etc.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Joseph Harfouch
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