On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:37:10AM +0100, Bodo Meissner wrote: > > OK. But the feature centering a note on the middle vowel of a syllable > > is an interesting point to implement, not only for gregorian, but for > > any lyrics. > > It's definitely interesting. Is this used for other styles of music > notation?
I've never seen this in modern music notation - in engraved music, the syllables are always centered around the noteheads (except for melismas, where the syllables and notes are left-aligned to each other). > > Indeed there is \csong in musixtex, but it centers the text > > with a zero length, thus leading in lyrics overlapping it notes are to > > close to another. It would then be nice to have "hardspaces" protecting > > lyrics from overlapping. This is what some commercial music typesetting programs do, but IMHO this often leads to a distracting, uneven note spacing. For me it's totally okay that the spacing is controlled solely by the music, not the written width of the words, since this reflects the way the music is performed. If note spacing is too narrow for the lyrics, it's better to widen up the music (by \scale or \linegoal or explicit line breaks) instead of aligning the music to the words. > > Thus, if I solve the problem for choirs, the gregorian > > problem will be solved in the same time. I'd prefer a solution for Gregorian chant that's focused on this single objective, since the challenges for both notation styles are so different - rather than making any compromise in order to meet both. Best regards, Rainer _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
