Aligning Square (Vaticana) notes with modern notation in separate staves

[anders stenberg]

Hi everybody!

I have just more or less finished a critical edition/ transcription of 
one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.
That meant putting two different Vaticana staffs and one normal staff in 
the same score.
Eg. entering The notes from the two main sources in square notation and 
a interpretation of  the semi rytmicnotation in the sources in modern 
notation.
The problem so fare is: as the square notes takes about the same space  
as  one quarter in modern notation disregarding if the sign is punctum 
inclinatum, punctum or virga. (As far as I understand this is true also 
in Ligatures.)
Now if  the virga is interpreted as a  long note and punktum as short 
eg. halfnote and quarter note the  notes in the square note staffs will 
not align with  the modern notation after a halfnote is entered in the 
modern staff. Temporaly I solwed this by adding s4 after apropriate 
notes in the Vaticana staff's. See  the following snipp:

escorial =  \new VaticanaVoice = "Escorial"
      {
          \set Staff.instrumentName="Esc-Codex"
          \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = "Esc "
          \set VaticanaStaff.middleCPosition = #2
              \set VaticanaStaff.clefPosition = #2 
          \[g\]\[ a\melisma \flexa b \melismaEnd \] \[ c' \]
          \[ \virga a\] s4 \[ b \]
          \[ \virga c' \] s4 \[ \virga d' \] s4 \divisioMaior
          s4 d' \[ d' \melisma \flexa  c'\melismaEnd \] \[ a \] \[ 
b\melisma \auctum \ascendens b\melismaEnd \]
          a \[ \virga g \] \[ a\melisma \flexa \deminutum g\melismaEnd 
\] \[ \virga f\] s4
       \divisioMaior
      

        }
escorialVers = \lyricmode
   {
       Nas m^ -- tes sen -- pre -- te^ -- er.
      de -- ve -- mo -- las sas fei^ -- "[tu]" -- ras

   }
  
toledo =
        \new VaticanaVoice = "Toledo" {
       \set Staff.instrumentName="To- codex"
       \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = "To "
       \set VaticanaStaff.middleCPosition = #2
              \set VaticanaStaff.clefPosition = #2 
        \[ g \] \[ a\melisma \flexa b \melismaEnd \] \[ \inclinatum c'\]
    \[ a \] s4 \[ \inclinatum b \] \[ c' \] s4 \[d' \] s4
    s4 \[ d' \] \[ d'\melisma \flexa c'\melismaEnd \] \[ a \] \[ b \] 
s4 \[ \inclinatum a \]
        \[ g \] \[ a \melisma \flexa g\melismaEnd \] \[ f \] s4
  
    }
toledoVers = \lyricmode         
   {
       Nas me^ -- tes sen -- pre te^ -- er
      de -- ve -- mo las sas fei -- tu -- ras
     
   }

transcriptI =
   \relative c' {
          \partial 4*1
          g'4
          a( b) c a2 b4
          c2 d r4 d4
          d4( c) a b2 a4
          g4. a8( g4) f2
   }

         
transcriptVers =       
   \lyricmode {
          Nas men -- tes sen -- pre te -- ner
          de ve -- mo -- las sas fei -- tu -- ras.

      }

transcript  =  \new Staff {
   <<
   \new Voice = "Transcript" {
          \set Staff.instrumentName="Transcript"
          \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = "Tr. "
          \clef "treble"
          \key c \major
          \time 6/4
          \transcriptI
   }
   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Transcript" {
          \transcriptVers
   }
          >>
      }

\score {
    <<
      <<
      \new VaticanaStaff \with {\override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #5 }
          \escorial

        \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Escorial" {
          \escorialVers
        }
      >>
      <<
      \new VaticanaStaff \with {\override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #5 }
          \toledo
       
        \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Toledo" {
        \toledoVers

        }
      >>
      <<
      \transcript

      >>
    >>
   
    \layout {
        indent = 20.0
    }
    } 
I only wonder: Is there a more elegant solution?  Its not only a 
eastetical quiz: If I also print the Vaticana "parts" separatly the 
extra spaces are just that: extra spaces botching the normal spacing of 
the notes and giving things a rather weirdo look when not in the mixed 
scorecontext.   Its also a bother to have to edit in/ out the extra 
spaces and somewath time consuming as I had to process the score at 
least a few extra times (at least this first time)  to get alignement 
and overall look right.

Yours
Anders