Re: Mensural ligature

[Graham King]

On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 19:59 +0200, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> On my way to typeset a mass by Monteverdi, I'm blocked with some 
> ligatures (see 
> http://musicofyesterday.com/historical-music-theory/expanded-history-musical-notation-part-4/ 
> for examples)
> I can code the first one in its 8th image like this:
>
>    << \tag #'Urtext { \[ d1 e1*3/4 \] }
>       \tag #'Modern { d1 e2. } >> f4 g1
>
> but don't find any way to get the E in black.
>
> Thanks for any pointer how to construct this.
>
> Cheers,
> Jean-Charles

Lukas Pietsch did some marvellous work on getting black mensural notation (and other early notations) working properly in lilypond.  It can be found at www.lukas-pietsch.de/Music/ but unfortunately it was written for lilypond 2.12 and throws errors in recent versions.  It might be that some of his techniques will help.  If you succeed with it, please let the list know!

-- Graham