Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-13 Thread Richard Shann
I have a general method sorted out for adding simple ornaments not covered by LilyPond, the code looks like the following example suspension = ^\markup {\epsfile #X #2 #/home/rshann/local/share/denemo/actions/bitmaps/suspension.eps} ... bes'\suspension( a'4.~ ) g'4\prall ... and the typeset

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-12 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 20:23 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: This brings up the point that there do indeed seem to be a set of people trying to use lilypond for baroque music engraving. Lilypond seems heavily oriented around nineteenth century practice (leaving aside it's wonderful support for

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-07 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 23:40 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 06.05.2014 21:18, schrieb Richard Shann: On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 00:11 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: If you are engraving coulés I wager you are going to need pincé and all the usual suspects as well! Yes, I don't know whether

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-07 Thread Andrew Bernard
This brings up the point that there do indeed seem to be a set of people trying to use lilypond for baroque music engraving. Lilypond seems heavily oriented around nineteenth century practice (leaving aside it's wonderful support for ancient notations) and the very usual and common set of

An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Richard Shann
I am typesetting some music that needs a slash between the notes of a chord, as in the attached image. Any suggestions how to achieve this? (I'm not sure what it is called, or quite what the execution is either, but that is another story...) Richard Shann

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Malte Meyn
Is this what you want? http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=837 Malte (Sorry, Richard, I sent this only to you but not to the list) On 06.05.2014 15:34, Richard Shann wrote: I am typesetting some music that needs a slash between the notes of a chord, as in the attached image. Any suggestions how

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Knute Snortum
Execution would be to roll the chord, but (in this case) add an 'e', that is { d e fis a }. You hold d, fis and a but not e. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.comwrote: I am typesetting some music that needs a slash between the notes

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Andrew Bernard
Richard, As a harpsichordist, let me clarify, The snippet is one way to render it graphically. The sign is known as a coulé in French, but the Germans used the same sign and called it Schleifer (there's another meaning to Schleifer but lets not turn this into a treatise!). It's not a

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 15:49 +0200, Malte Meyn wrote: Is this what you want? http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=837 Malte Yes, indeed, thank you very much - my searches didn't turn this up. I found the example difficult to understand until I twigged to the strategy being adopted: the idea is

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 00:11 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: Richard, As a harpsichordist, let me clarify, The snippet is one way to render it graphically. The sign is known as a coulé in French, but the Germans used the same sign and called it Schleifer (there's another meaning to

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.05.2014 21:18, schrieb Richard Shann: On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 00:11 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: If you are engraving coulés I wager you are going to need pincé and all the usual suspects as well! Yes, I don't know whether using mordents etc will be sufficient for this job, or whether