I have been considering how nice it would be if lilypond had appropriate grobs for setting music in the style of the Synodal Chant Books of the Russian Orthodox Church. Its looks like this:
http://www.holycrosskliros.org/public_html/dload/toporki.png This adaption of western staff-notation was used in Russian Chant books from the mid 17th century until the beginning of the 20th. Many of these books are still printed today and used in Russian Orthodox Monasteries (like mine) and a few parishes. I mostly set chants in English and I would like to be able to reproduce the style of my sources at lilypond's level of quality. Of course, the desire is somewhat antiquarian, but there are also some real practical advantages to the quadratic notation, especially for very long, melismatic chants. If I someone can make the grobs necessary for this (there are around ten, not all in this example) then I think I could work out the spacing, line-thicknesses etc. If the developers wanted to include it in the Lilypond package, then with some help I could put together a kievan-init.ly and write a page or two for the documentation. So how much would it cost to have these symbols added to lilypond, and/or existing symbols appropriately altered? I'm asking the developers first, and then anyone else who is able to do this kind of thing. If I get a response with a cost-estimate I will send a written specification (pointing out things that might not be obvious) and start looking for others who are interested (if that's necessary). Thank you for your wonderful work and kind help. Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV USA http://www.holycrosshermitage.com/ http://www.holycrosskliros.org/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user