Re: proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Maximilian Albert escreveu:
> Orm Finnendahl schrieb:
> 
>>  thanks for pointing that out. That's exactly along the lines I was
>> thinking. Is anybody capable of doing the scheme/lilypond code? I
>> don't know Metafont yet but I think I could handle that part and throw
>> in the glyphs (they are currently PS Type1).
> 
> Well, I'd be delighted to give it a try because this sounds exactly like
> the kind of rather easy task which merely distracts the core team from
> doing more difficult and really important stuff but gives newcomers like
> me a chance to play around a little with the code and possibly even make
> a useful contribution.

Exactly. 

> . So it seems that the use of "Accidental #'style" is deprecated and one
> should set the alteration-alist directly. (But changing the style
> property still works in v2.11.13, even if I don't know why, given that I
> couldn't find the code handling it). What is the reason for this? To me
> the former notation seems much more intuitive and easy to use.

The recent microtone improvements needed a much more flexible way to map
pitches onto symbols, and it seems superfluous to have two mechanisms for
setting glyphname at the same time.  It would be possible  to have a 
mechanism to set the alist based on the style property, but I thought it 
would be overkill.

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