Re: Black mensural notation in current Lilypond

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "MIchael McClimon" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 3:08 PM
Subject: Black mensural notation in current Lilypond


> (First of all, I'm not subscribed to this list, so I'd appreciate it if 
> you
> copied me at address@hidden on replies to this.)

We traditionally "reply all" on this list, when we remember.

> In the past, I've used Lukas Pietsch's Black Mensural plugin
> (http://www.lukas-pietsch.de/Music/blackmensural.ly) to set black mensural
> notation. It works pretty well with Lilypond 2.12, but less good on newer
> versions of Lilypond. The spacing and whatnot is often way off, for 
> example,
> with noteheads colliding into one another, and ligatures frequently don't
> work. I'm pretty sure there were some changes in Lilypond 2.14 to the
> mensural plugin, which breaks certain aspects of the plugin.
>
> (Lukas's original thread introducing the Black Mensural stuff is at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2011-01/msg00088.html)
>
> I'm willing to work on his plugin to get it to work properly on recent
> Lilyponds, but I'm not very familiar with Lilypond internals, especially 
> when
> it comes to the mensural stuff. I'm hoping that someone here with more
> knowledge might be able to lend a hand, or at least point me in the right
> direction as to where would be a good place to start.


You might start by looking at updating the syntax of the included file with 
convert-ly:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly

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Phil Holmes