This message got cycled to my junk mail, so I didn't notice it until today.
On 2016-02-08 6:25 PM, Sister Anne Farran wrote:
Question 1: Do you have plans to make it possible to place square notes on a staff with 5 lines?
This feature has been implemented in 4.1. We're currently working through that release cycle, but you can try it in the betas if you wish.
It would be so much easier for musicians today to be able to read and play Gregorian chant if the notes were placed on a treble staff with the appropriate flats and sharps. I have developed a special g-clef in the shape of a diamond to use instead of the treble clef. The treble clef suggests that one is dealing with a staff featuring measured/timed music. The diamond (rhombus) attached to a long slender "pole" is situated on the "g" note and is quite elegant and looks natural to the chant. Are you interested in this path? I have work done in Photoshop if you'd like to see it.
We'd be willing to consider adding these glyphs, but not in 4.1. We've got enough work to do to just getting the features we already have ready.
Also, it will be much easier to add these glyphs if you have them defined as font characters. I don't know if Photoshop can do this. We currently use FontForge to draw our glyphs. If you can create your glyphs in FontForge, then including them will be done far faster when one of the developers gets the chance to work on this.
Question 2: Do you plan to make it possible to set hymns to music in such a way that the music is written once, and all the different verses share the staff, as is done in modern hymnals?
I assume you mean multiple lines of text under a single staff (as having just verse 1 under the staff and the others in block text afterwards is already possible through the capabilities of TeX). This is a planned feature, but it's a big one and thus no where on the immediate horizon.
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