Christof Biebricher wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, M. Chapman wrote:
>
> > Do any of you know the sign used for alla breve if I want more than four
> > beats, say eight instead? I guess that would be the equivalent of 8/4 time
> > in place of 4/4...
> >
> If it is old music you can use the same sign (\allabreve). It applies
> for any `tempus imperfectum' (twofold symmetry). However, the sign
> for allabreve `tempus perfectum' (full circle with vertical slash)
> is missing in Musixtex.
For my modern editions of renaissance music I've some time ago got
assistance from Mats Bengtsson (one of the Lilypond wizzards) to add a
tempus perfectum symbol together with other white mensural music
notation symbols to the Lilypond feta font. A 'frozen' version of this
font together with a collection of musixtex macros making use of these
symbols is separately available with my Thomas Ravenscroft editions,
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/music/scores/ravenscroft/common.zip. To use them with
pmx/mtx you must manually insert them into the score by means of a blind
rest combined with one of the macros.
> If it changes often between the two
> (Sch�tz, Frescobaldi), then 4/2 and 3/2 (or 3/1) is more consistent.
> Christof
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