On Jan 4, 2011 Innocent Smith wrote:
While we're on the topic of the Rbar, has anyone noticed that it
does not seem to change in size when the general font size is
decreased? On the score Michael Martin has linked to, for instance,
which seems to use a smaller font size than normal, the Rbar and
Vbar are both taller than the capital letters in the line of text
(e.g. V. Ite missa est [on p. 3 of the pdf]). Would it be difficult
to allow the Rbar to change in height?
Hello,
The Rbar is part of a small custom symbol font (gresym), so it's
unaffected by size changes to \gretextformat – if you want it to be
smaller you need to resize \gregoriosymbolfont separately. (e.g. \font
\gregoriosymbolfont=gresym at 10pt) Note it probably will not
precisely match/correspond with your text, since the capital R used in
it is from a different (free) typeface, and isn't exactly the same
size as, for example, a Garamond R. For that, you could create your
own – gresym includes plain bars too.
Also, it seems from the scores I've looked at that most often the
Rbar and Vbar are followed be a period. Would it perhaps be better
to create a glyph that has the period included for the purposes of
kerning (perhaps Rbar-p)? Often it seems like the period is further
from the base of the glyph Rbar than is most attractive.
You can create your own Rbar-p, or even redefine the \Rbar macro
itself, and include a kerned period in it.
-Tracy
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