More Gsharp blogging, I'm afraid; we will return to pure Lisp implementation hacking in a future edition. Until then, I'll mention that magnusjonsson has showed up out of the blue, with an avowed interest in providing support for microtonal mutations (in the form of notation and performance of sagittal accidentals, which are apparently good enough for the microtone community). I think this is awesomely cool, and it even potentially ties into my own musical research interests, such as whether one can infer the tuning system required for best performance of certain Renaissance repertoires (e.g. syntonic tuning in Willaert motets).

Relatedly, I recently discovered that I work (at one remove in management structures) with a developer on a different (competing! or maybe that's giving Gsharp a little too much credibility) music notation programme. My hope is that I stay around in my current position for long enough that interesting work in that space can happen, because in neither of our cases are we in fact employed to work on music notation – even though it is extremely close conceptually to the things that we are paid to do...