"Phil Holmes" <[email protected]> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Kastrup" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:28 AM > Subject: Re: Mensural clefs > > >> "Phil Holmes" <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> I've started setting a bit of mensural music, from Dufay. All of the >>> music uses a C clef, similar to the mensural-c. However, the gap >>> between the upper and lower half of the clef is _exactly_ centred on >>> the c staff line. Compare this with the lilypond mensural C clef - >>> it's centred on the B below. This seems wrong to me. All the other C >>> clefs are centred on the C. Do we know why? >> >> No idea, but this does not exactly seem new: >> <URL:http://dvoi.com/files/lilypond/2.8.1/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-clefs.html> >> >> Huh. > > It's looking to me increasingly that it's been considerably wrong for > a considerable time:
I've written to Jürgen Reuter. Let's see whether he responds. My own attempts of fiddling with mf/parmesan-clefs.mf had rather terrible results: I can't really make head nor tail of the Metafont code: the kind of calculations it does seem rather bizarre. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
