Re: ly: updates to hel-arabic.ly (issue 349810043 by address@hidden)

[Adam Good]

Hassan,
I'm having a little bit of difficulty following the thread because I can't
seem to find the hel-arabic.ly file you're working on. Could you please
point me to the file so I can play with it?

Thank you in advance

Adam Good

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:38 PM Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>
> > On 17 Dec 2018, at 15:35, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >> FYI, Adam Good expressed interest updating the Arabic and Persian
> > files for
> >> LilyPond [1]. I have sent him a file with maqam from the site [2].
> >
> >> 1.
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2018-11/msg00105.html
> >> 2. https://www.maqamworld.com/en/
> >
> > Turkish/Persian Maqams and are very different to Arabic Maqams so cannot
> > - according to Hassan - be compared.
>
> Note the difference in spelling: Turkish makam and Arabic maqam. And
> Persian dastgah. The site [2] above is of the Arabic maqam. I made a file
> for that in E53 with two commas for the microtones, using Graham Breed
> regular.ly, and Helmholtz-Ellis accidentals, cf. [3]. The Arabic maqam
> simply use a different set of accidental glyphs, two missing in the
> traditional system, the ones with arrows at [2].
>
> It would be good if you listen to the microtonal pitches of the MIDI at
> [3], telling if they sound fine.
>
> 3. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00607.html
>
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