Christof Biebricher wrote: > Dear all: > > I am in need of ornament fonts. The ornaments > in the baroque were nationally quite different, > e.g., England had special fonts for their shake. > > Many trills have complementaries at their end > (a downturn, in German ``Nachschlag''). The French, > e.g. Couperin, indicated them by placing a turn > over the trill. Since the classical time it is usually > written out. > In the German baroque, most notably Bach, it is > noted by placing the > mordent dash at the end of the trill and it was > possible to combine that dash with the trills having > downturns at the beginning indicated by a hook > ( which Bach called Doppel-cadence ). > The musixtex package does not provide for these very > frequent ornaments. Werner Icking substituted > the long mordent (\Mordent) in contrapunctus 8 of > the Kunst der Fuge because it looked somewhat similar. I am > working on improving and extending my > Organ version as well as Werner Icking's Urtext and > string editions and the introduction of a wrong ornament > bothers me very much because the execution of both ornaments > is totally different. Is there a possibility to get the > correct ornament, either by getting the font from another > program, by a TeX macro superimposing the stroke or by a > font produced by metafont? >
For my recently published typesetting of a lute tablature by Vincenzo Galilei (see sheet music archive) I needed a set of tablature symbols which I implemented using PsTricks macros. It's fairly simply but has the disadvantage of being uncompatible with dvipdfm. A more 'clean' approach would be to design the new fonts with METAFONT (or METAPOST). Bye -- Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Phone: +45 89 49 53 01 - http://www.scandiatransplant.org _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
