Re: Mensural clefs

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

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> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Mensural clefs
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>
>> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I've started setting a bit of mensural music, from Dufay.  All of the
>>> music uses a C clef, similar to the mensural-c.  However, the gap
>>> between the upper and lower half of the clef is _exactly_ centred on
>>> the c staff line. Compare this with the lilypond mensural C clef -
>>> it's centred on the B below.  This seems wrong to me.  All the other C
>>> clefs are centred on the C. Do we know why?
>>
>> No idea, but this does not exactly seem new:
>> <URL:http://dvoi.com/files/lilypond/2.8.1/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-clefs.html>
>>
>> Huh.
>
> It's looking to me increasingly that it's been considerably wrong for
> a considerable time:

I've written to Jürgen Reuter.  Let's see whether he responds.  My own
attempts of fiddling with mf/parmesan-clefs.mf had rather terrible
results: I can't really make head nor tail of the Metafont code: the
kind of calculations it does seem rather bizarre.

-- 
David Kastrup