URL:
<http://gna.org/task/?7673>
Summary: Improvement of flat system
Project: Gregorio
Submitted by: eroux
Submitted on: dim. 24 mars 2013 15:03:45 GMT
Should Start On: dim. 24 mars 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Should be Finished on: dim. 24 mars 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
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From a mail by Br Innocent Smith on March 24th 2013:
I'm not sure how much you or others are planning on doing further development
at this point, but while we're on the topic of feature requests one that would
be very helpful would be to finetune the system for flats and naturals.
Currently this is the part of score production that is most laborious for me,
because the flats and naturals have to be readjusted manually each time
depending on the width and text/chant size of the score. If we were able to
have a more absolute system of flats that could appear or not appear depending
on the context, that would go a long way towards making an individual GABC
file much more flexible.
As far as I know, there are two different systems in 19th/20th century chant
books for notating flats and naturals.
1) In the Vatican edition, a flat applies until a natural, or a division line,
or a new word.
2) In Dominican chant books, a flat applies until a natural or the end of a
line.
I think that the best way to notate flats in GABC should be to put a flat
indication on every note that ought to be flat, and then have Gregorio
determine when to actually print the flats in relation to the rules of the
flats. If this change was to be implemented, perhaps it could be done in a way
that left that current system in place (and would thus be backwards
compatible) but which added a flat or natural to a note in a way analogous to
the notations that add a rhythmic mark to a note, i.e., by putting a letter
after the pitch/height indication. As an offhand suggestion, you could use %
for flat: [e.g.: A(i%)men.(j)]
A specific letter-notation for natural would not be necessary because a
natural would be added automatically if the flat was not present in the
notation.
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