Hi, the manual section on ancient notation was contributed by Jurgen Reuter. I don't know anything about ancient notation, so I should be grateful if you would research further, and propose an alternative text.
Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In the manual, under "Ancient time signatures" it says > > "Some glyphs (such as the alternate glyph for 6/8 meter) are not at all > accessible through the \time command." > > In the table above, a glyph is shown above the command "\time 6/8". > AFAICS, no other 6/8 glyph is mentioned in the manual. Are there two > glyphs, one you get with \time 6/8, and one you get some other way (which > seems not to be mentioned)? Or is the sentence I just quoted wrong? > > The manual continues: > > "Mensural time signatures are supported typographically, but not yet > musically. The internal representation of durations is based on a purely > binary system; a ternary division such as 1 brevis = 3 semibrevis (tempus > perfectum) or 1 semibrevis = 3 minima (cum prolatione maiori) is not > correctly handled: event times in ternary modes will be badly computed, > resulting e.g. in horizontally misaligned note heads, and bar checks are > likely to erroneously fail." > > But again, I can't see any way to get \time (or another command) to select > a ternary time signature. > > -- > http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/ | free, a. already paid for (Peyton Jones) > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-lilypond mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ Bug-lilypond mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
