Dear friends, I hope this is not too pedantic, but I've found a method for preparing texts to be notated in Gregorio more quickly that I thought I'd share if anyone would find it helpful. If you are working with English texts, after typing in the text you can run them through the Lyric Hyphenator ( http://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/), then find & replace the hyphens thus inserted with "()" and then the spaces between words with "() " [followed by a space]. This is much faster than inserting the parentheses by hand.
A similar process can be used for Latin texts, although there is not to my knowledge so convenient a tool as the Lyric Hyphenator. I've done experiments using my own compiled word lists, which works decently so long as you have a good find and replace program that has a "whole words" option. Another solution might be to determine basic rules when a syllable is broken in Latin (for instance between two vowels [excepting dipthongs], between certain consonants, etc.) and use that to get a lot of the parentheses inserted. Has anyone else come up with other tricks like this, or have other suggestions? Yours, br. Innocent
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