Thank you very much!
That was exactly, what I was looking for! As I've only got one chant to
transcribe, the time it takes to tweak every single melisma is no problem.
:)
All the best
Christian
Am Do., 7. Mai 2020 um 21:39 Uhr schrieb Valentin Villenave <
valen...@villenave.net>:
> On 5/7/20, Christian Masser <christian.mas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am currently working on my Master thesis and would like to show parts
> of
> > gregorian chants in modern notation for comparison purposes.
>
> Greetings, good luck for your thesis!
>
> > Is it possible to get the note heads even closer together, so that they
> are
> > kind of glued together? Probably someone did this before but I wasn't
> able
> > to find it yet.
>
> Well for once, you could use \omit rather than \hide, since with \hide
> the graphical objects still take up horizontal space. Next you can
> shrink the NoteHead object’s horizontal extent (rather than the
> BarLine), but the results will look quite ugly quite fast,
> particularly with regard to the lyrics:
>
> %%%%
>
> spiritus = \relative {
> \time 1/4
> \override Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent = #'(0 . 3)
> d'4 \tuplet 3/2 { f8 a g } g a a4 g f8 e
> d4 f8 g g8 d f g a g f4 g8 a a4 s
> \tuplet 3/2 { g8 f d } e f g a g4
> }
>
> spirLyr = \lyricmode {
> Spi -- ri -- _ _ tus _ Do -- mi -- ni _ re -- ple -- _ vit _
> or -- _ bem _ ter -- ra -- _ rum, al -- _ _ le -- _ lu
> -- _ ia.
> }
> \score {
> \new Staff <<
> \new Voice = "chant" \spiritus
> \new Lyrics = "one" \lyricsto "chant" \spirLyr
> >>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Staff
> \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
> %\override BarLine.X-extent = #'(-1 . 1)
> \omit Stem
> \omit Beam
> \omit BarLine
> \omit TupletNumber
> \override NoteHead.X-extent = #'(-0.1 . 0.1)
> }
> }
>
> %%%%
>
> Cheers,
> -- V.
> }
>
