Re: mensural notation: patch, question, plan

[Juergen Reuter]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Benk� P�l wrote:

> 2005-02-27  Pal Benko  <address@hidden>
>
>         * lily/mensural-ligature.cc (brew_flexa):
>         make flexa parts of ligatures look more similar to square parts

Hi, P�l!

Currently, the thickness property of the flexa shape aplies to all 
segments of the outline.  IIUC, you are suggesting to apply the thickness 
property only to the left and right outline segment of the flexa shape, 
while hard-wiring the upper and lower segment wrt to the proportions in 
the .mf code for the brevis note head.  I think this is somewhat 
inconsistent.  If we really need different thicknesses for the vertical 
and horizontal segments, we may want to control this behavior with a 
separate property.

However, I just looked at a few facsimiles as well as contemporary 
educational works on mensural ligatures, and my impression is that all 
line segments roughly have the same thickness (unless the steepness is 
extremely high, in which case we may want to apply some thickness 
correction factor to the horizontal segments in order to compensate for 
optical illusion effects).  Do you really think that the horizontal and 
vertical segments need to be controlled separately?  Do you have 
facsimiles or contemporary works with noticeable difference between the 
thickness of the horizontal and vertical outline segments?

Greetings,
J�rgen