Thanks to all who supplied a solution.
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:30:41 Rainer Dunker wrote:
I may be wrong as well. I think both the older signs without lines and the signs in the four-line notation are called neumes.(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.)
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:57:22PM +0100, Bodo Meissner wrote:
> 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 > |======|
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:
...
That example is just what I want, except that my psalm is in a four-line notation with gregorian neumes.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.
Christian and Veronica pointed me to the musixlit/opuslit package. I must have overlooked it when I glanced over the documentation.
So I have to try these tree solutions. They all produce the symbol I'm looking for.
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:35:39 Veronica Brandt wrote:
I think that only a minority wants to typeset gregorian notation, and these people use/develop OpusTex. The musixgre package seems to be an early version of the opusgre package. Due to incompatibilities between MusiXTeX and OpusTeX it might be difficult to adopt the enhancements from OpusTeX packages to MusiXTeX.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.
Maybe it's not an original gregorian notation but a mixture of gregorian and this "intermediate" notation.Your notation is too modern for gregorian chant by the looks of it.
I just scanned the hand-written original. If you want to look at it, you can find it in
http://bodo-m.de/pictures/ps50.png
or
http://bodo-m.de/pictures/ps50.gif
If anyone knows which gregorian notation symbol(s) I can use instead of this bar I would like to know.
Bodo
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