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?