On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:12:25AM +0100, Antonio González Fernández wrote: > I'm working with OpusTeX from some years (v. 0.93 now) and I made some > modifications on opusgre like some corrected or new neumes. Now I'm > attempting to separate lyrics from neumes as musixlyr does (using lines > from musixlyr too). I think it will be useful specially editing hymns.
I'd be interested in enhancing musixlyr so that it could typeset Gregorian chant lyrics properly. What additional features would be needed for this? I can see these topics: - Centering the vowel of a syllable under the (first) head of a neume. This shouldn't be difficult, as it's just an additional horizontal alignment scheme. - Omitting "extension rules" and hyphen sequences at melismas. This is easy and in fact possible already now. - Controlling the horizontal placement of the notes/neumes according to the lyrics flow; i.e., horizontal spacing is no longer determined by the note values (which are absent in chant) but by the space consumption of the written words/syllables, as in a normal paragraph (except for long melismas where of course the melismatic neumes sequence must get the space it requires). This should be quite hard to realize - but is it really necessary for proper chant typesetting? Have I forgotten anything? Best regards, Rainer _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
