On Oct 25, 12:26pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Subject: Music-setting_conventions
> Hermann Lauer wrote:
>
> >1) shifted alto clef:
>
> >\setclef14
> >\setsign1{1}
>
> > produces the sharp # above the top line of the staffs, in the score I'm
> >excerpting from, the sharp is noted one octave deeper - How could this be
> >changed ?
> >Is the usual notation to note the sharp above the highest staff line ?
.....
> The practice for putting the accidentals and even more so the signs for
> ornaments have changed during music history very much. The present rules
> are: put prescribed accidentals always within the line system and never
> double them: if two of them fit into the line system (e.g. two sharps
> in the G key) take only the higher one. I think there were no conventions
> in earlier time, and each composer had the liberty to write as it seemed
> appropriate for him. If you want to reproduce the
> ornaments from the english virginalists, or the french
> harpsichord masters, you would have to create numerous new fonts.
> If you are an expert on Metafont, you may do it, otherwise one has to
> stick to the modern conventions.
After your description the score I have seems to take the modern convention -
but musiXTeX seems to do not ! Please try:
\setclef14
\setsign1{1}
I get the sharp then above the highest staff line, an not within the line
system.
What are I'm missing ? (Sorry for not beeing an Metafont expert, so another
solution would be helpfull...)
Thanks for any help.
Greetings
Hermann
