[smufl-discuss] Re: Fwd: Arabic notation 3/4 flat accidental missing

[Karim Ratib]

Thanks Daniel, I only have that one source atm, but I will research
more and update the thread here.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Daniel Spreadbury
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Karim wrote:
>
>> I'm working on bringing Arabic and Turkish notation to a number of
>> open source projects. I did some research on the availability of
>> Arabic and Turkish glyphs in SMuFL, and I found them all with one
>> exception: the Arabic 3/4 flat accidental.
>
> I see that the remainder of the accidentals used in this symbol are a
> combination of Stein-Zimmermann accidentals (1/4 and 3/4 sharp) and the AEU
> accidentals (1/4 flat).
>
> I'm very happy to add this 3/4 flat accidental as requested, but before I
> create a new group to contain these six accidentals (rather than simply
> adding the new 3/4 flat accidental to the existing 'Other accidentals'
> range, which is a rag-bag of symbols that do not themselves form coherent
> and self-contained systems), can you provide any references to other uses of
> this 3/4 flat accidental, or publications that give a specific name to this
> particular grouping of accidentals as being specifically a 24-EDO system for
> Arabic music?
>
> In the meantime, I've added a GitHub issue for this request:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/44
>
> and I expect it will be possible to include this in the upcoming SMuFL 1.2
> release.
>
> Daniel
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