Re: merging the shaped note "fa"

[Eduardo Vieira]

I think what I mention would be a standard practice. At least is what I see
from old song books to new song books in shape notes typesetted in Finale.

I'll contact Han-Wen, to see what kind of deal I can get

BTW here is a link with some scanned shape note hymns
http://members.tripod.com/shapenote/

Eduardo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Sandberg" <address@hidden>
To: "Eduardo Vieira" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: merging the shaped note "fa"


> On Saturday 14 January 2006 20.12, Eduardo Vieira wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently installed  the version 2.7.26-1 and noticed that some changes
> > were done on the way to handle the "fas" in usison. Unfortunately it
wasn't
> > fixed properly. Instead of shifting the notes to avoid collision, they
> > should be merged in such a way that only one of the "fa" noteheads would
be
> > displayed, like a single note with double stems. So the solution lies in
> > making one of the noteheads transparent, which can be done manually
> > overriding such property. The real problem is in the span of the stem
along
> > the side of the fa notehead. It needs to be long enough to go from one
> > corner to the other of the fa. I know the development team had to do
some
> > successful adaptations with the case of the do, and I figure this other
> > adaptation won't be too hard.
>
> We still don't know any rules for how this should be done: Since the fa
> notehead isn't symmetric, there are two ways of writing a merged fa
notehead:
>
>   |
>  _|
> |\|
> |
> |
>
> and
>
>   |
>  _|
> |/
> |
> |
>
> To me, it's not obvious which version that should be used in which case.
Also,
> I know nothing about shaped noteheads, so I don't know anything about
common
> practise. Do you have any references on how merged shaped fa noteheads
> "should" look?
>
> (btw, I have a feeling that Han-Wen would appreciate sponsorship for
fixing
> this)
>
> (as a temporary workaround, you can probably \override Stem #'extra-offset
to
> position the down stem correctly)
>
> --
> Erik
>