Partly, because we also have mode II* and C, D and E.
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From: Benjamin Bloomfield <[email protected]>
To: Steven van Roode <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Gregorio-users] A funny bug in illuminare
Well, I always thought it was confusing the way it worked before. How about if
it retains the current behavior only if what is entered is majuscule Roman
numerals followed by a minuscule letter between a and g, e.g., VIIIg or IId.
Would that be OK?
Benjamin Bloomfield
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Steven van Roode <[email protected]>
wrote:
Benjamin,
>
>
>You wrote:
>
>
>"I will change it later today so that in the public facing site it will just
>do straight small caps."
>
>
>
>I would like to ask you not to change this. In typesetting genuine Gregorian
>chant, the annotation field is always used to indicate the mode of the chant
>and the ending of the psalm tone. The Illuminare tool not to behave like this
>would make it impossible to typeset any antiphon correctly – I use it
>exclusively for this purpose.
>
>
>I hope you would like to reconsider.
>
>
>Best,
>
>
>Steven
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Benjamin Bloomfield <[email protected]>
>To: Veronica Brandt <[email protected]>
>Cc: gregorio-users <[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [Gregorio-users] A funny bug in illuminare
>
>
>
>This is a side effect of Illuminare having been based on a project whose
>specifications for the annotation field were that it would be roman numerals
>followed by a possible ending letter from a to g. The Roman numerals were to
>be small caps, and the ending letter if any was to be lower case. Thus, if
>the annotation ends with a letter from a to g, right now that letter will be
>lower case. I will change it later today so that in the public facing site it
>will just do straight small caps.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Benjamin Bloomfield
>
>
>
>On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Veronica Brandt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>>
>>I made another video about using gregorio online.
>>
>>This time I tried typing twinkle
>>
>>The code went like this:
>>
>>user-notes: ;
>>commentary: ;
>>annotation: Nursery;
>>annotation: Rhyme;
>>centering-scheme: english;
>>%spacing: vichi;
>>%font: OFLSortsMillGoudy;
>>%width: 4.5;
>>%height: 11;
>>%%
>>(f3) TWink(e)le(e) twink(i)le(i) lit(j)tle(j) star(i.) (:)
>>
>>Which worked pretty well, but the last letter of Rhyme in the annotations
>>came out lowercase for some reason.
>>
>>So had a go with the regular svn gregorio which doesn't seem to do anything
>>with the annotaion field at all.
>>
>>I know not many people are going to be using the field for words, but curious
>>now as to a) what went wrong, and b) how the annotation field is supposed to
>>work in gregorio.
>>
>>In my books I've been using \gresetfirstlinebeforeinitial or whatever it was
>>- I'm a bit lazy to look it up.
>>
>>Here's the video link:
>>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I46qY-NaAsI
>>
>>Veronica
>>
>>Veronica
>>
>>
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