----- Original Message -----
From: "Benko Pál" <[email protected]>
To: "Phil Holmes" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Devel" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: Stem direction wrong for white mensural music?
If I compile the following code (the start of Dufay's Ave Regina a3) with
default settings, the stems follow modern style - some up, some down. For
ancient music (I'm not sure when this ended, but it certainly applies
around
the period up to 1500) the stems were always up for normal notes; -
downstems showed other features - e.g. chromatic alteration on German
tablatures.
It's trivial to fix with a \stemUp, but I'd suggest this is a bug. Does
anyone else have a view, before I add it to the tracker?
music _prints_ do use downward stems, what's more, it's not at all
systematical,
see e.g. the example in
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1839#c13
so we are left to apply manual \stemUp's and \stemDown's
(I use a global \stemUp and hack closing longae to \stemDown).
p
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Thanks. On the manuscripts I'm looking at, they're all up-stem. I'm
assuming the printed version is a later reworking of a manuscript? Do you
think the printers adopted more modern methods, or did downstems also creep
into manuscript music?
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Phil Holmes
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