Re: use of 1/2 staff divisio maior in gregorian chant.

[David Kastrup]

"Keith N. McKenna" <address@hidden> writes:

> Keith N. McKenna wrote:
>> Greetings All;
>>
>> In many some of the Gregorian Chant's I have access to they show the
>> divisio Maior as starting slightly above the third line of the staff and
>> continuing to just below the second line of the staff instead of a full
>> "bar line" like the Divisio Maxima only less bold. Is it possible to get
>> this configuration using lilypond 2.16?
>>
>> Regards
>> Keith
>
> After beating my head against the walls on this for a few  few days
> with some very helpful suggestion off list from Jeffrey Trevino, thank
> you very much Jeff, I stumbled on a very simple way to do it. While
> searching through the documentation I discovered a link to the version
> 2.17.1 docs that Showed the divisio maior to be the half staff mark
> that I prefer. Installed version 2.17.1 and ran a quick test and in
> works like a charm.

It won't persist as it has been "fixed" in 2.17.7, and since the code is
"clever", all bets are off just what will be entailed to reliably change
it to the way you prefer.

Cf. <URL:https://codereview.appspot.com/6778050#msg11>.

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David Kastrup