Re: Typesetting "as near to Petrucci style as possible".

[Shane Brandes]

Did you mean a 16th century font?

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 10:52 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
>> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 10:37 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
>> > > seems identical with or without MultiMeasureRest.style =
>> > #'neomensural
>> > > and indeed with  MultiMeasureRest.style = ##f too.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Richard
>> >
>> >
>> > Have you considered using r1 instead of R1?
>
> For this music, where there are bar lines, r1 does not center the whole
> measure rest. I've come up with the following workaround:
>
> \version "2.19.43"
>
>  {
>         \clef mensural-g
>         \set Staff.clefPosition = #-4
>         \set Staff.middleCPosition = #-8
>         \set Staff.middleCClefPosition = #-8
>         \override Flag.style = #'mensural
>         \override NoteHead.style = #'petrucci
>         \override Rest.style = #'neomensural
>         \override MultiMeasureRest.style = #'neomensural
>         \key g \major    \time 6/4
>         r1*6/4
>         \hide R1*6/4 -\tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . -2.1)^\markup {\musicglyph 
> #"rests.0neomensural"}
>         c''2. \once\override Dots.dot-count = #0
>         r2. c''2
>  }
>
> I wonder if there is something neater? Can I tell LilyPond to use
> rests.0neomensural instead of the glyph it does use (rests.0 ?)
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>>   I don't know the era of
>> > the
>> > music you're aiming for, but certainly up to 1600 there was no concept
>> > of a
>> > multimeasure rest, since there was no measure.
>>
>> Well, the Rebel is as late as 1712, and does have multi-measure rests
>> (it's printed as separate parts)
>> https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/345846
>>
>> I'm not sure what period the originator of this query was interested in
>> - very likely earlier, this print using moveable type was old-fashioned
>> at the time. But I thought it might illustrate LilyPond's flexibility to
>> generate both a modern and a (somewhat) early version from the same
>> Denemo input. I think it is quite impressive, but there are some style
>> clashes in there.
>>
>> Richard
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