Fwd: Re: Re: The Stem of Longa notes is short when Baroque Notehead style is used

[Simon Albrecht]

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Subject: 	Re: Re: The Stem of Longa notes is short when Baroque Notehead 
style is used
Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:38:56 +0100
From:   Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>
To:     address@hidden



That sounds like a valid enhancement request, but you should back it up 
with evidence (longs glyphs from other music fonts, or old 
prints/manuscripts). The stem wasn't made that short by accident – it's 
designer had a reason for that as well.

Best, Simon

> On 30.01.2019 - 03:53, Pothárn Imre wrote:
>
>
> Well, I suppose it's useless to try to argue, but that glyph might be
> > supposed to be like that, but it is completely useless. I am posting a
> > lot of Renaissance music on CPDL using the original note values. The
> > final note is invariably a longa, which I have always substituted with
> > a breve because of Lilypond's longa looks so bad with its short stem.
> > In Renaissance music (i.e. everywhere where this kind of note-head is
> > used as longa) the stem of the longa is as long as all the other
> > stems. So this short stem is clearly wrong. But I since I can't force
> > you to draw a proper longa, I must resign that I cannot use longa in
> > transcriptions of Renaissance music in the future, either, since
> > apparently you do not care. (And I think it's also useless to remind
> > you that other engraving programs - notably Finale - have a proper
> > longa, which I therefore used as a Finale user before switching to
> > Lilypond.)
> >
> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> > Imre
> >
> > Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan.
> > 29., K, 9:57):
> > >
> > > On 28.01.19 23:57, Pothárn Imre wrote:
> > > > %% The stem length of the longa is very short when Baroque 
> > NoteHead style is
> > > > used.
> > >
> > >
> > > That’s because it’s not technically a stem, but part of the notehead
> > > glyph. It’s supposed to be like that.
> > >
> > > Best, Simon
> > >