On Tuesday, 09 June 2015 at 07:49:22 pm +0200, Abbazia Mater Ecclesiae wrote: > Exactly, what I need is a feedback about new glyphs, and some suggestions. > My opinion is that actual shapes are not so clearly readable, mostly in > small scores, what I want to get is somehow a midway between Solesmes' > shapes (I don't really like the oriscus liq.) and current greciliae shapes, > that are too similar to "normal" puncti (oriscus and punctum liq. auct.) or > too similar to normal oriscus (oriscus liq.). > > If you have some suggestions, they're welcome.
I do agree that the Greciliae (and Caeciliae, on which it was derived) are deficient in the differentiation of these characters. (I would also include the punctum inclinatum auctus as another deficient glyph). As with your stropha and stropha aucta changes, I, for one, welcome these changes. I really like the "new" oriscus descendens. It is very clearly different and harmonizes well. However, I am not quite as happy with the others: The "lower tail" of the oriscus reversus (the oriscus was not pictured) seems narrower than the "upper tail". I'd prefer them to be more the same, such that rotating the oriscus 180 degrees would yield the same shape. This could just be a rendering issue, but the "old" version looks fine when zoomed in whereas the "new" one doesn't. The punctum descendens looks passable by itself, but when joined as part of a clivis, it looks out-of-place to me. I think that perhaps there is too much of an upward curve to the stroke. I actually think the gregorio font (as opposed to greciliae) does a pretty good job of the punctum descendens. However, this is an artistic thing, and I'm not exactly the one with the best artistic sense here. In addition, I think if the punctum descendens is redrawn, it is probably worth redrawing the punctum ascendens to be of a consistent weight, curve, and stroke. Any chance of redrawing the punctum inclinatum auctus as well? I think that's the final glyph needing revision in Greciliae for readability. When these glyphs are ready, I would seriously suggest replacing the existing glyphs with them, leaving the old ones as ".caeciliae" alternatives like we did with the stropha and stropha aucta. Henry _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
