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Sagittal question

🔗Aaron Krister Johnson <aaron@...>

2/26/2007 6:09:28 AM

How does one express 49/36 in Sagittal? Is it the theoretical standard
that one should use double/triple symbols?

-A.

🔗Dave Keenan <d.keenan@...>

3/2/2007 4:58:11 PM

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson"
<aaron@...> wrote:
>
> How does one express 49/36 in Sagittal? Is it the theoretical standard
> that one should use double/triple symbols?
>
> -A.

Dear MMMers,

For those who haven't been reading the tuning list, the answer is:

Double sagittals are strongly discouraged and triple sagittals triply
so. We actually do have a single symbol for that although it wasn't
available in the font or documented before now.

If 1/1 is C then 49/36 is F~|) or Fp. This boathook-and-arc-up symbol
(49-small-diesis symbol) is character 160 in the new sagittal-2 font
which is now available and fully documented at
http://dkeenan.com/sagittal/

You may need to hit your reload button. Thanks to Aaron for giving me
the incentive to finish the documentation.

For discussion, see
/tuning/topicId_70098.html#70098
and
/tuning/topicId_70117.html#70117

-- Dave Keenan

🔗Gene Ward Smith <genewardsmith@...>

3/2/2007 11:32:28 PM

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Keenan" <d.keenan@...>
wrote:

> For those who haven't been reading the tuning list, the answer is:
>
> Double sagittals are strongly discouraged and triple sagittals triply
> so.

Which means notating nanotemperaments maybe should be a priority.