On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:12:01AM +0200, Guido Milanese wrote:
> Thanks a lot for this suggestion! I'll try this package and see what I can do.
> But it's really impossibile to write texts with Gregorian chant using MusiXTeX?
You can combine musixgre and musixlyr to post lyrics to Gregorian chant,
but this yields a poor man's Gregorian typesetting only. AFAIK OpusTeX is
far more sophisticated in the respect; for example, it subordinates the
notes spacing to the lyrics spacing (since the lyrics are "leading" the
music) and it horizontally aligns the note to the vowel of the syllable
(or does something similar, I don't remember exactly).
Nevertheless, I've tried MusiXTeX/musixgre/musixlyr and found that
musixgre has a strange notion of where the horizontal center of a
multi-note ligature is. I could only achieve a somewhat acceptable result
by switching automatic lyrics setting off and posting all syllables
explicitly; see this sandbox example:
\input musixtex \input musixgre \input musixlyr
\setlines14 \setclef1{3000}
\setaltoclefsymbol1\gregorianCclef
\setlyrics1{Dies ist Gre-go-ri-a-nisch} \assignlyrics11
\startpiece
\notes
\lyricsoff
\lyr\bivirga ab%
\llyr\lyr\trivirga abc%
\lyr\clivis ab%
\lyr\quilismapes af%
\lyr\Porrectus geg%
\lyr\climacus gfa%
\lyr\salicusflexus abfe%
\en
\endpiece\bye
Best regards,
Rainer
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