Re: [TeX-music] Gregorian chant and musixlyr

2006-02-14 Thread Veronica Brandt
This sounds great.  

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:34:31 +0100
Rainer Dunker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 - Controlling the horizontal placement of the notes/neumes according to 
   the lyrics flow; i.e., horizontal spacing is no longer determined by 
   the note values (which are absent in chant) but by the space 
   consumption of the written words/syllables, as in a normal paragraph 
   (except for long melismas where of course the melismatic neumes 
   sequence must get the space it requires).
   This should be quite hard to realize - but is it really necessary for 
   proper chant typesetting?
 
Yes, though sometimes I put in a hyphen to spread out the neumes when
they seem a bit close together and when a b flat overlaps.  I'll pay 
more attention to any manual tweaking now.

 Have I forgotten anything?

Nothing springs to mind

Thanks,

Veronica
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[TeX-music] Gregorian chant and musixlyr

2006-02-10 Thread Rainer Dunker
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:12:25AM +0100, Antonio González Fernández wrote:
 I'm working with OpusTeX from some years (v. 0.93 now) and I made some
 modifications on opusgre like some corrected or new neumes. Now I'm
 attempting to separate lyrics from neumes as musixlyr does (using lines
 from musixlyr too). I think it will be useful specially editing hymns.

I'd be interested in enhancing musixlyr so that it could typeset 
Gregorian chant lyrics properly. What additional features would 
be needed for this? I can see these topics:

- Centering the vowel of a syllable under the (first) head of a neume. 
  This shouldn't be difficult, as it's just an additional horizontal 
  alignment scheme.

- Omitting extension rules and hyphen sequences at melismas. This is 
  easy and in fact possible already now.

- Controlling the horizontal placement of the notes/neumes according to 
  the lyrics flow; i.e., horizontal spacing is no longer determined by 
  the note values (which are absent in chant) but by the space 
  consumption of the written words/syllables, as in a normal paragraph 
  (except for long melismas where of course the melismatic neumes 
  sequence must get the space it requires).
  This should be quite hard to realize - but is it really necessary for 
  proper chant typesetting?

Have I forgotten anything?

Best regards,

Rainer
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Re: [TeX-music] Gregorian chant and musixlyr

2006-02-10 Thread Dirk Laurie
Rainer Dunker skryf:
 I'd be interested in enhancing musixlyr so that it could typeset 
 Gregorian chant lyrics properly. What additional features would 
 be needed for this? I can see these topics:
 
...
 
 Have I forgotten anything?
 
Automatic selection of some appropriate pre-Gutenberg font :-)

Dirk
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