May I make a plea for these to be recognised as problems which ideally should be solved?
I know it is possible to work round most of them by adding a (z) in the gabc, but there are times when this is difficult. I am thinking in particular of gabc files which have in turn been generated by another program. (I have myself written a program which expands pointed psalms so that they are fully written out, for easier reading by those unfamiliar with pointing. Currently this outputs Lilypond, but gabc would be better.) I am willing to raise the bug reports and write test cases demonstrating the problem. I don't think I have deep enough knowledge of TeX to fix them, I'm sorry to say. Those I have noticed are: - sometimes if the last real staff is full, it is followed by an empty staff. - in the same case, a staff has a spurious custos, even though there are no more notes. - there is sometimes insufficient space between the clef and the first note of the line, especially if the first syllable on the line starts with a vowel. (The Antiphonale Monasticum of 1934 seems to leave a space of about 1.5 notehead widths, at least.) - the alternative form of divisio finalis, two vertical lines at the very end of the staff (rather than a little before the end) can at present only be chosen manually by editing the gregoriotex file. It would be better if this was done automatically at the end of a piece when the line is full. - currently a divisio can appear at the start of a line. It would be better if line breaks never occurred just before a divisio. - Sometimes, if a word is broken across a line boundary, there is no hyphen. There should be a hyphen. - it does not seem possible to have a key signature of a single B flat. This would be useful for some late chants of mode V or mode VI, which are really major. Perhaps this is not part of the core chant notation, but it is used occasionally with English adaptions. (For example, the `Plainchant Gradual' (English) uses a Bb key signature for the Gradual Blessed art thou, Benedictus es, of Trinity Sunday, although the Liber Usualis writes every Bb with its own flat sign for the melody.) - It would also be useful if the relevant TeX parameters were mentioned in the documentation, especially if their use is different (is it?) from their use with ordinary tex. I have had some success at adjusting the line breaks in gregoriotex output by changing \tolerance. -- David Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Gregorio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-devel
