On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:57:22PM +0100, Bodo Meissner wrote: > I would like to notate a psalm in gregorian neumes. I have a hand-written > notation I would like to reproduce.
(Are you sure that it is a neumes notation? I may be wrong, but as far as I remember, neumes are nothing more than written-down shapes of the choral leader's gestures, without lines and "note heads"; they are therefore the predecessor of the still used four-lines choral notation.) > For several words of a varying number, the music notation show a thick > horizontal line with a thin vertical line at each end at the appropriate > position in the staff. An ASCII approximation is > |======| > > How can I produce such a sign in MusiXTeX or OpusTeX? I once had the same challenge, and the solution I found (using MusiXTeX) is basically the same as Don's one for the multi-bar rest symbol: It draws a thick \vrule with appropriate size and position. As a little added convenience, it automatically determines the appropriate width of the thick rule according to the underlying lyrics. (It does not, however, take care of line breaking in any way.) Find attached the original .tex file with the example. It is typeset in modern notation, but the method should work for four-lines choral notation as well. > [...] All examples I found until now are OpusTeX sources. Is > OpusTeX better than MusiXTeX for gregorian chants? I've no idea, sorry ... Best regards, Rainer
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