I'll agree heartily that OpusTeX is better than MusixTeX for gregorian chant.
The main advantage, I think, is that the neumes fall into place around the words. For
sacred music this shows that the music is meant to serve the text. Could I be right
in suspecting that this is something fundamental that MusiXTeX can't do? In
conventional notation the duration of the note determines the spacing, in the chant it
is the words.
Looking in the manual, |=====| notes are part of the opuslit package. Maybe this is
closer to what you want.
There's a bit more detail about this package in the MusiXTeX manual ( p. 94 )
musixlit. The note you're looking for is called \Hpause.
"time between gregorian and romantic, still used for liturgical works.!."
Your notation is too modern for gregorian chant by the looks of it.
Hoping this helps,
Veronica
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> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:39:04 +0100 (CET)
> From: Beda Szukics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Bodo Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: [TeX-music] need specific note/neume for psalm in gregorian
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> > I would also like to have some example files of gregorian music notation
> > for MusiXTeX. All examples I found until now are OpusTeX sources. Is
> > OpusTeX better than MusiXTeX for gregorian chants?
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> Yes.
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> Beda
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