[Gregorio-users] Vertical spaces and Initial letter width
Dear Gregousers friends,
please, I need an help to set some parameters in my main.tex file according
to vertical spacing and initial letter width, since I’m not skilled enough
to do this by myself…
1) Which argument is needed to tune \spacelinestext, \spaceabovelines and
\spacebeneathtext commands? I’m not able to find a way to tune this spaces. I’d
like to have a \spacelinetext parameter fixed by user, based on the
distance between (e) note and text (it’s 4mm in Solesmes’ editions), then
everything should work automatically, and Gregorio should shift down text
as much as notes go down.
Is this the way Gregorio works? Is there a way to make this available in
Gregorio? Or should I find a compromise between my desires and a good
Gregorio’s vertical spaces algorithm tuning?
2) I’d like to have always the same space at the beginning of each chant,
and not a variable space depending on what kind of consonant I have (as in
Solesmes’ last AM). This space should be fixed in 1,3 mm about, or {1em +
3,2 mm before and after}.
So I need to replace the commands:
\setspaceafterinitial{3,2mm plus 0mm minus 0mm}
\setspacebeforeinitial{3,2mm plus 0mm minus 0mm}
with something else which makes this space not depending on initial width…
What should I do to get this? :)
Thank you very very much!
Holy Lent time to everyone,
In Christ,
Sr. Maria Ruth Malagoli OSB
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[Gregorio-users] ...and fonts questions...
Dear All, May anyone help me also with this problem: I want to have the ‘Ligatures’ option in my document, and this works fine for the ‘fi’ ligature but not for the ‘ff’ group (see the attached files). Moreover, I’d like to use special fonts for barred initials (\Abar, \Rbar, \Vbar): which command should I use to insert them instead of Gregorio’s default ones? Thank you very much! Sr. Maria Ruth Malagoli OSB test ligatures.tex Description: TeX document test ligatures.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ Gregorio-users mailing list Gregorio-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
Re: [Gregorio-users] ...and fonts questions...
I am pretty sure the ff problem is happening because you have
Dif(f)fu(h)sa(g) in your gabc file. If there were more notes over Dif
(or the font were smaller) then the text would show correctly as
dif-fu-sa. However, since you only need one punctum above Dif the
Dif and fu are being placed next to each other and the ligature is
not showing. My suggestion here is to change this to Diff(f)u(h)sa(g)
or Di(f)ffu(h)sa(g), which would show incorrectly if there were more
notes above Dif, but should be fine given what you have.
The answer to your question about the barred initials depends on what
font you are using and how the symbol is encoded in the font.
For example, if the Response and Versicle figures are in the font at
their unicode positions (U+211F and U+2123, respectively), you can
create a macro that sets the appropriate font and uses the unicode
character directly.
If the symbols are encoded at specific non-unicode positions, you can
create a macro that sets the font and uses the character directly
(perhaps using \char).
If you are manually composing the characters, then you can create a
macro that does this. I personally use this method to combine my
normal font with the slashes that are in the gresym font:
\newcommand{\VBAR}{{\color{cardinalred}\ooalign{{\kern+0.05em}{\gregoriosymbolfont
\char 74}\cr V.}\ }}
\newcommand{\ABAR}{{\color{cardinalred}\ooalign{{\kern+0.33em}{\gregoriosymbolfont
\char 73}\cr A.}\ }}
\newcommand{\RBAR}{{\color{cardinalred}\ooalign{{\kern+0.35em}{\gregoriosymbolfont
\char 73}\cr R.}\ }}
(of course defining the cardinalred color elsewhere). I then use these
macros (\VBAR, \ABAR, and \RBAR) instead of the gregorio \Vbar, \Abar,
and \Rbar.
If you can give more details about the font (if the font is freely
available, pointing me at the font is best), I (or someone else on the
list) can help you create the appropriate macros.
Regards,
Henry
On Sunday, 15 February 2015 at 06:31:57 pm +0100, Abbazia Mater Ecclesiae wrote:
Dear All,
May anyone help me also with this problem: I want to have the ‘Ligatures’
option in my document, and this works fine for the ‘fi’ ligature but not
for the ‘ff’ group (see the attached files).
Moreover, I’d like to use special fonts for barred initials (\Abar, \Rbar,
\Vbar): which command should I use to insert them instead of Gregorio’s
default ones?
Thank you very much!
Sr. Maria Ruth Malagoli OSB
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Re: [Gregorio-users] Vertical spaces and Initial letter width
I've made a first attempt at this, but can't get the em and ex units working properly (these are the units which are dependent on font size). Would it be acceptable to specify the forced width of the initial in absolute units (mm, cm, in, pt, etc.)? ✝ Br. Samuel, OSB (R. Padraic Springuel) PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ___ Gregorio-users mailing list Gregorio-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
Re: [Gregorio-users] ...and fonts questions...
It seems that the c*℟℣/c markup to get liturgical red is not very known.
Please refer to
http://www.gregoriochant.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/latest_features
On 02/15/2015 08:01 PM, Henry So Jr. wrote:
I am pretty sure the ff problem is happening because you have
Dif(f)fu(h)sa(g) in your gabc file. If there were more notes over Dif
(or the font were smaller) then the text would show correctly as
dif-fu-sa. However, since you only need one punctum above Dif the
Dif and fu are being placed next to each other and the ligature is
not showing. My suggestion here is to change this to Diff(f)u(h)sa(g)
or Di(f)ffu(h)sa(g), which would show incorrectly if there were more
notes above Dif, but should be fine given what you have.
The answer to your question about the barred initials depends on what
font you are using and how the symbol is encoded in the font.
For example, if the Response and Versicle figures are in the font at
their unicode positions (U+211F and U+2123, respectively), you can
create a macro that sets the appropriate font and uses the unicode
character directly.
If the symbols are encoded at specific non-unicode positions, you can
create a macro that sets the font and uses the character directly
(perhaps using \char).
If you are manually composing the characters, then you can create a
macro that does this. I personally use this method to combine my
normal font with the slashes that are in the gresym font:
\newcommand{\VBAR}{{\color{cardinalred}\ooalign{{\kern+0.05em}{\gregoriosymbolfont
\char 74}\cr V.}\ }}
\newcommand{\ABAR}{{\color{cardinalred}\ooalign{{\kern+0.33em}{\gregoriosymbolfont
\char 73}\cr A.}\ }}
\newcommand{\RBAR}{{\color{cardinalred}\ooalign{{\kern+0.35em}{\gregoriosymbolfont
\char 73}\cr R.}\ }}
(of course defining the cardinalred color elsewhere). I then use these
macros (\VBAR, \ABAR, and \RBAR) instead of the gregorio \Vbar, \Abar,
and \Rbar.
If you can give more details about the font (if the font is freely
available, pointing me at the font is best), I (or someone else on the
list) can help you create the appropriate macros.
Regards,
Henry
On Sunday, 15 February 2015 at 06:31:57 pm +0100, Abbazia Mater Ecclesiae wrote:
Dear All,
May anyone help me also with this problem: I want to have the ‘Ligatures’
option in my document, and this works fine for the ‘fi’ ligature but not
for the ‘ff’ group (see the attached files).
Moreover, I’d like to use special fonts for barred initials (\Abar, \Rbar,
\Vbar): which command should I use to insert them instead of Gregorio’s
default ones?
Thank you very much!
Sr. Maria Ruth Malagoli OSB
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