On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:39 PM Kees van den Doel <kvd...@gmail.com> wrote:

> But there's also blackmensural.ly by Lukas Pietsch; it's quite old (and
>> to be honest I don't know it at all and can't say how it deals with your
>> problem), but maybe it's of use to you:
>> http://www.lukas-pietsch.de/Music/
>>
>
> I got everything to work fine, except the special note shapes.
> Interestingly the blackmensural. <http://blackmensural.ly/>pdf is
> illustrated with the begin of the same piece I'm typesetting and has those
> note shapes perfectly.
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't work with 2.22 and convert-ly gives a long list
> of errors to fix manually which is beyond my capability.
>

Actually, despite getting many warnings like below, blackmensural.ly seems
to work fine. It's actually quite wonderful and complete and has everything
one needs to typeset music from before ~1450.

enattendant2.ly:82:5: warning: cannot create context:
BlackMensuralStaff = cantusa

                                                \new
BlackMensuralStaff = "cantusa"  <<
enattendant2.ly:83:7: warning: cannot create context:
BlackMensuralVoice = cantusa

                                                  \new
BlackMensuralVoice = "cantusa"  {
warning: cannot find property type-check for `mensural_ligature_queue'
(translation-type?).  perhaps a typing error?
                  warning: skipping assignment
                           warning: cannot find property type-check
for `beatLength' (translation-type?).  perhaps a typing error?

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