Re: incipit in 2.12: some remarks

[Stefan Waler]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Yes, unfortunately there is no one in the doc team that has the
> knowledge and/or time to write this section at the moment.  Would you be 
> interested in preparing some text for this?
> A few paragraphs of straight text and a couple of examples
> sent to me would be fine.

Hmmm, I could do this but I don't know what the reasons were for 
removing the existing documentation?

Would it mean just referring to the snippets or print the whole incipit 
function once again in the documentation?
> I don't think the incipit function in the snippet titled "Incipit" 
> actually sets the neomensural style itself - this
> seems to be set in the music supplied to the function.  So using
>
> \override Rest #'style = #'neomensural
>
> in the music should work.  I'll see if I can fix this.

No, I don't think it's part of the music - there's nothing about it. 
Maybe it's achieved by this instruction in the incipit function:

'context-type 'MensuralStaff

(BTW, I was slightly too quick here in my last posting - the style for 
notes and time signature is *mensural*, not neomensural.)

But this wouldn't explain why the style for the rests is wrong.

If you fix this: do you think it's easily possible to remove the 
horizontal spacing for any durations? In mensural notation you would 
never let any space for rests or longer notes etc. (also means that the 
individual staffs should be independent of each other in this regard)

> There are still some issues with incipits, I believe, so this
> snippet should be regarded as just a possible approach.  For the same 
> reasons this will probably not be included as a standard function.

OK - but given the two issues above are fixed, it's a 99.9% approach :-)
Anyway, I can live with that.

Stefan