Dear All,
Reading Paléographie Musicale XV further, I think the previous method I
proposed you is good for simple glyphs, but is not exhaustive at all. If
you take p. 136 of Paléographie Musicale XV further, you can see a neume
of approximately 8 notes. Drawing it for all possible ambitus, if we
take a maximum ambitus of 5 would mean drawing 5^8 = 390625 glyphs! This
is just impossible.
So another proposal would be the following:
* keep the ambitus as proposed in my previous mail, for simple glyphs
(clivis, pes, etc.). This means the font will require thousands of
glyphs to be drawn (a job that will take a few weeks!).
* start a database with all possible Beneventan glyphs, including all
different ambitus that one can find in the manuscripts, and give them a
number. Then they should be drawn and they'll be callable by sg:zzz
where zzz is their number.
I see no other possible solution... what do you think? Or maybe I
misunderstood the Beneventan notation?
These solutions require a *huge* development I cannot undertake alone in
my free time, so if there is no other solution, what I propose is to
start the development of ancient notation with St Gall and Laon neumes;
and with only simple Beneventan neumes that will work like the others,
very simply.
If there are funds to develop the whole interface needed to encode
Beneventan manuscripts, I'll be very happy to do it; but I cannot spend
the two or three months necessary to develop the whole interface without
an income...
Thank you,
--
Elie
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