On Sun, 2025-11-16 at 04:34 +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Hi! I've been browsing the issue tracker on GitLab, and I came > > > across issue #6776 ( > > > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6776 ). Though I > > > couldn't understand metafont and would more than likely cause > > damage > > > instead of helping if I went the coding route, I can draw the > > glyphs > > > and send .svg files! (I use Inkscape in case that's relevant.) > > Would > > > that help and/or reduce everyone else's work at all? > > > Thanks for the offer! Unfortunately, this doesn't help really help. > What's really needed would be the following. > > 1. Scans of down-stem flags. I was browsing scores printed by > Petrucci and I could only find up-stem flags, contrary to later > printers like Dorico (and Dorico seems to use the existing flag > shapes, probably a bit thicker in design). So maybe they don't > exist at all?
Here are some examples from the Superius partbook, in the Gloria of Josquin's Missa sup. voces musicales [1] > > 2. A scan of a two-flag glyph. Again, my quick search didn't find a > single one. > The semifusa certainly existed at this period as, amongst several others, Cochlaeus gives an example in his theoretical work Compendium... cantus figurabilis (1507) at 10v [2], however his glyph is far less elegant than Petrucci's would be. On a cursory search, I haven't found any by Petrucci, except in tablature (where his glyphs are of course unlike those in his staff notation). If Petrucci had semifusae, I would expect them to resemble this: (i.e. a "flag-and-a-half" rather than a "two-flag glyph") HTH -- Graham [1] https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/267481 [2] http://download.digitale-sammlungen.de/BOOKS/pdf_download.pl?id=bsb00015233
