Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?

[Dominic Neumann]

Thanks Kurt! I already solved some problems, for example by using
\finalis, \divisioMinima and so on.
The main remaining problem is the bad positioning of notes and lyrics
when two or more noteheads are nearly in one place. After these places
is too much space until the next notehead is printed.

Now I updated from 2.11.44 to 2.11.55 hoping that it helps. But the output of
http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-notation.html
looks other than online. Online there are not those ugly spaces, but
on my system there are. [It´s Windows XP Pro, LilyPond version
2.11.55]
(see attachment for this).

Any ideas?

Dominic

2008/8/11 Kurt Kroon <address@hidden>:
> On 2008/07/29 8:04 AM, "Dominic Neumann" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
> Hello!  I don't know if anyone else has answered this -- I haven't been
> getting digests for the past week or so -- so I figured I should toss my hat
> into the discussion ... especially since I have some recent experience in
> setting Gregorian chant.
>
>>
>> I´m new to gregorian typesetting but I´ve seen that there´s already
>> support for it in LilyPond.
>> Can you tell me how I can add a double bar at the end?
>
> Replace \bar "||" with \finalis.  I would also use \divisioMinima instead of
> \breathe ... but that's just me.
>
>>
>> And there is a wrong note at the end? How can I delete it?
>
> It looks to me like LilyPond is trying to interpret \bar in terms of
> gregorian-init.ly, and is failing.  (The diagnostic messages from the
> console would be helpful to determine if that's really the case.)  Replacing
> \bar "||" with \finalis should delete it.
>
>>
>> Is it at all a good idea to start typesetting gregorian chants with
>> LilyPond or are there too many diffulcuties by now?
>
> Yes, there are some difficulties, but you can see a small example of what
> the current development version of LilyPond can do at the "Ancient Notation"
> section of the GDP site:
>
> http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-notation.
> html
>
> Like the rest of the documentation, you can click on the image to see the
> LilyPond source that created it.  Some things to note: I did not include any
> tweaks because I wanted to see how LilyPond handled unmodified input, so I
> would be better informed while working on this section; the output is not
> perfect by any means, but it looks much better than the output produced by
> the current production version (last time I checked, anyway); there are some
> odd collisions (especially the last phrase, which runs into the last finalis
> (double bar).
>
> I hope that will be enough to get you started.
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> You're welcome,
>
> Kurtis
>
>
>
>

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