On 02.10.2008 (00:04), Juergen Reuter wrote:
>
> Very nice, I like the structure and your explanatory add-ons!
Thanks
> Just a few nitpicking comments:
>
> * 2.8.3 (Typesetting mensural music): "There are no rests in Gregorian
> chant notation; instead, it uses Divisiones." I would have expected this
> statement to appear somewhere in 2.8.4 (Typesetting Gregorian chant)
> instead.
Right. Shall move. There may be other similar formulations left behind in
the wrong place too.
> * 2.8.4 (Typesetting Gregorian chant):
>
> * "... by placing one of the joining commands pes or flexa ..." => "...
> by placing one of the joining commands \pes or \flexa ..."
Check.
> * "... by modifying the shape of a single-note neume with \auctus and
> one of the direction markers \descendens or \ascendens, e.g. \[
> \auctus \descendens a \] ...": Replace "\auctus" => "\auctum". N.B.:
> From an implementation point of view, I felt the need to minimize
> redundancy in the input language and therefore only defined the
> neutrum form "auctum". Maybe users prefer using the correctly
> declined forms?
Three possibilities:
- stick with \auctum and let the users (and documentation writers...)
learn that form
- allow \auctus too (but where to stop? \aucta as well? what about all
the other commands? \cava? \inclinatus?)
- allow the root form without inflection: \auct, \inclinat, etc.
I don't know which is best.
> * FYI: gregorian.ly defines also the commands \versus, \responsum,
> \ij, \iij, \IJ, and \IIJ that will produce the corresponding
> characters (e.g. for use in lyrics). However, since these commands
> uses quite special unicode characters, they will only work with
> properly installed unicode fonts that support these characters.
> Unfortunately, to my knowledge there is no slashed "A" character
> available in unicode. (As far as I know, all of these commands
> have not at all been documented so far.)
I definitely think this should be documented. I'll have a look at
gregorian.ly.
Eyolf
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