Re: Change color for some symbols in a sylable

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10.01.2012, 17:15, "David Nalesnik" <address@hidden>:
> Hi Svetlana,
> This is a fun problem, and I may be able to help depending on what exactly you need.  I'm not familiar with the notation system you're using, and I haven't been able to find other examples of this type of chant (Znamenny?) online which use staff notation and colorize the text below the staff.
>
> Some questions which I have:
> 1. Are the symbols to be colored red always one character in length?  (If some are single and some multiple this will be a bit harder, and if some of these _share_ a character... oh my.)
> 2. Can the symbols appear anywhere in the word, or just at the beginning (as in your posted example)?
> 3. Is there only one red symbol per word?
> 4. Is this list of symbols unchanging from one chant to the next? If so, it would be helpful to provide the list.
>
> If you have more examples, that would be very helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> David

Hi, David!
Thank you for your response and help! I'll try to make my best in explanation of the problem. Sorry, I can answer you with a delay, a little child takes most of my time.

Originaly, Znamenny chants were written only with znamya and text, no staff notes at all. Music is completely encrypted in znamya itself. But now we need notes, as only few people are familiar with the system and other just learn. Most znamenny books are handwritten as it's wery complex typography problem. Now there exists a Russian community around znamenny chants, they have made a font and their own online editor, but as for me it is of no good use when it comes up to something more than printing a single chant. I try to make chant sets for easy singing and lilypond offers excellent typography. You can see how it looks handwtiten fo example here: http://www.dyak-oko.mrezha.ru/archive/obichod.zip For modern-typed online examples you may look here: http://znamen.ru/Give.php?ruk=q303&id=pbex
You will need these fonts to see it correctly:
http://znamen.ru/paraklht.zip
http://znamen.ru/knijitsa.zip
http://znamen.ru/ortucs8.zip
http://znamen.ru/odnoglas.php

That was historical part, now the practical.
1. The may be multiple different colored symbols in one syllable. For example, in "Мк2)" both "М" and ")" should be colored.
2. It could be the ant place of the syllable. I couldn't find middle-placed examples, but it will be needed if we add some spaces in the beginning for some difficult positioning problems.
3. Zero, one or more than one - all is possible. Also, it could be something like "ъ9%я1ХЗз" where "ъ", "9" and "з" should be colored.
4. The list is unchanging, here it is, all case-sensitive (first part are cyrillic letters):
цуУнНгГщзъЪвВаАпПРлЛсСмМиИтТбБю№weEyYuUdDfFgGhHcCvVbBnN4567890=(<*?]}

So, i's not too easy as it must be flexible a lot, but it would be a great help to me.

Here is a lilypond example attached (I've minimized it for just necessary things). You will need this font: http://znamen.ru/paraklht.zip to render it correctly. unfortunately I don't have colored version of any of my chants, but if you need I could make one (colored modern font pdf from Russian community + it's lilypond version) for you.

Thank you,
Svetlana.