I guess it depends on whether you believe (or whether under GregoBase
guidelines -- which I can't seem to find anywhere) gabc is encoding the
intent of the music or the visual representation of a particular edition
of the music. If the former, oriscus should be encoded as "o" in the
gabc, whether it looks like the post-1985 Solesmes oriscus or the second
note in a pre-1985 Solesmes salicus (i.e., the a podatus with an ictus).
If the latter, then this figure should be encoded as "o<" in the gabc as
that is what makes it look like the book being transcribed.
Regardless of which position you take, I think the font should be left
alone. If you are in the former camp, the font is just a visual
representation of intent, so is accurate given a gabc encoding the
intent of the music. If you are in the latter camp, you would need to
encode both oriscus and oriscus auctus figures because you are encoding
specific editions in gabc, so the font needs to support both.
If you asking for opinions, I am in the former camp, so I would choose
to encode that figure as an ordinary oriscus ("o") if the Antiphonale
Monasticum (1934) intends it as an ordinary oriscus as opposed to an
oriscus auctus. I do not have this book, so I cannot look through it,
but a big clue would be whether the book has more than one form of
oriscus. Perhaps someone more scholarly than I can chime in.
Regards,
Henry
On Wednesday, 06 August 2014 at 10:22:37 pm +0200, Olivier Berten wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just noticed while checking some files on GregoBase that Solesmes'
> oriscus looks much more like Gregorio's oriscus auctus... should we
> encode them as oriscus or oriscus auctus? or should we change the
> shape of the oriscus in Gregorio?
>
> http://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=4232
> http://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=4259
> http://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=4605
>
> Olivier
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