Re: Black mensural notehead bug

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Black mensural notehead bug


> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> > To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: "Devel" <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 5:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: Black mensural notehead bug
> >
> >
> > > "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > This looks wrong to me:
> > > >
> > > > \relative c'' {
> > > > \override NoteHead.style = #'mensural
> > > > \cadenzaOn
> > > > s1 a \longa a \breve a1 \bar "|"
> > > > \override NoteHead.style = #'blackmensural
> > > > s1 a \longa a \breve a1 \bar "|"
> > > > }
> > >
> > > There is no blackmensural style as such as far as I can see.  Do you
> > > mean blackpetrucci?
> >
> > There are glyphs - for example noteheads.sM1blackmensural so I guessed
> > the style.
>
> Guessing is your privilege, but as long as you don't guess something
> supported by the manuals, I don't see anything that can be called a bug.

The manuals for ancient notation continue to have some defects...

> > It seems to me you shouldn't need to select a petrucci style to get
> > these glyphs?
>
> Petrucci uses mensural noteheads scaled to a different size.  So it's
> not that surprising that Blackpetrucci uses blackmensural noteheads.
>
> So we have any other style using _those_ noteheads?

Well, I don't know without further digging.  However, there is a notation 
style called black mensural, and it seems only logical that Lilypond should 
support this using the available glyphs.

--
Phil Holmes