Staff colour in ancient notation

2007-03-27 Thread Joseph Haig
When using some ancient notations the staves are coloured red, as in section 7.7 of the user guide. Why is this and is it possible to set it to black? Thanks, Joe ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Staff colour in ancient notation

2007-03-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't really know anything about gregorian chant notation, but if you refer to section 7.7.11 Gregorian chant contexts, it mentions Editio Vaticana and I guess that the inspiration to use colored staves comes either from that edition or from original manuscripts. If you want them in black,

Re: Staff colour in ancient notation

2007-03-27 Thread Joseph Haig
Interesting. I had not seen this before, but a quick Google search suggests that it is not unknown for chant to be printed in black and red. Just for reference, it seems that, based on the documentation, this was changed in Lilypond between 2.4 and 2.6. Thanks, Joe On 27/03/07, Mats