Dear all, I'm thinking about the debate that took place two years ago here:
https://mail.gna.org/public/gregorio-users/2013-05/threads.html in the "GregoBase... getting a bit further..." thread. The global debate is ae vs æ vs ǽ, i vs js, etc. I just had an idea I'd like to submit you: in Gregorio, everything that is noted with <sp> could be more configurable. In GregoBase, everything could be identical to the original, but surrounded by <sp>. For instance in http://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=1916 , the fifth syllable would be <sp>ae</sp>, which is the same as the original. Then to integrate the score inside a books using æ, one would just have to define \greusespecial{ae}{æ} and all ae would be transformed into æ. The advantage of this is mainly for i vs j: only the <sp>i</sp> could be transformed to j, not all i. This changes the meaning of <sp> heavily, but it would also be possible to add a new markup like <alt>, that could handle <sp> inside it. For instance <alt><sp>ae</sp></alt> would be equivalent to <alt>æ</alt>. Also, I think providing a few macros to "deaccentize" words in pure TeX would be quite easy, so I don't think accents should use <alt>. What do you think of the idea? This is just a brainstorming... But please don't make it an argument of ae vs æ or i vs j, that's not the point. Thank you, -- Elie _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
