Dear Élie, et al,
I did experiment these days following your advice. A few more questions:
1) Regarding the "barred V" in commentary - I added the code below in to the
tex file:
\gresimpledefbarredsymbol{V}{0.14em}
and added the code below into the commentary header of the gabc file:
\begin{upshape}\Vbar.\end{upshape}
Then a barred V is successfully rendered in the commentary section of the
output score. However, I'm not sure if it is a good way to call a low-level
(implementation level) command (\Vbar) from within the high-level gabc code. Is
there a better way to achieve the same purpose and at the same time keep the
gabc and gtex decoupled?
2) Regarding the extended ledger line - Below is part of the modified gabc code:
um.([ull:0{1]ddc/da..[ull:}], ......
It seems to work except that the extended ledger line is broken under the note
c, as if the note was too "thick" to leave space for the extra ledger line (see
the picture attached). Is it something unexpected at? What can I do to fix it?
Thanks,
Michael Zhang
Shanghai, China
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发件人: Élie Roux <[email protected]> 代表 Élie Roux
<[email protected]>
发送时间: 2016年5月18日 23:24
收件人: Zhang Michael; gregorio-users
主题: Re: Questions about GregorioTeX
Dear Michael,
For general help, it's best to ask the gregorio list (CC of this mail)
> 1) How to change font and size for the annotation?
See GregorioRef.pdf section 2.2.10 (Styling). I'm using version
4_2-beta1, which you can find at the bottom of:
https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta1
> 2) How to display a barred V (℣) for the commentary? If I type a
> barred V (℣) directly in the commentary section of the gabc code, it
> will be omitted /disappear in the output; but if I type <sp>V/</sp>,
> it cannot be recognized and will be rendered as is.
See GregorioRef section 2.2.8 (Barred letters)
> 3) The punctum inclinatum appears to be thicker (or "fatter") than
> those printed in GR. Especially, in a climacus it looks obvious that
> the space between the two punctos inclinos is quite narrow. (And I
> think all the neumes output by GregorioTeX are a little thicker than
> those found in GR in general.) Can it (the glyph) be
> controlled/modified by some means so that it can be a little
> thinner?
The punctum inclinatum is from a font called greciliae, based on
caeciliae. It has its own style, a bit different from the one of
Solesmes old books... You cannot change that easily, but if you want to
draw a new font, there is some help with the (quite heavy) machinery
used by Gregorio to build fonts here:
https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/tree/master/fonts
> 4) Can I manually add ledger line(s) or extend the length of it? The
> algorithm of GregorioTeX seems to add ledger line for low/high note
> only when necessary. However, in GR it is found frequent that the
> extra line is lengthened and even extended to the entire neume, which
> helps sight reading a lot.
See GregorioRef.pdf section 6.5 (Custom Ledger Lines)
> 5) It seems that GregorioTeX automatically adjust the space between
> the staff and the lyric when there is ledger line(s) below the
> staff. However, it applies the adjustment globally to all staffs
> regardless whether there is ledger line(s) or not in a specific
> staff. Can it adjust the space only for the staffs that contain extra
> line(s), and keep the space unchanged for those that do not contain
> extra line?
It does that if you compile the document twice. I suggest you use
"latexmk" to compile (with the "-lualatex" option), it will detect
automatically if it needs to compile the document again or not.
Thank you!
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