Re: Black mensural notation

[Lukas Pietsch]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:49 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> Very impressive!  Could you try to make it work with the current
> development version?  The next steps could then be adding the missing
> glyph shapes to the lilypond fonts, followed by either writing a new
> engraver or modifying/fixing/correcting the existing ones.q

Unfortunately, I've had some problems getting any other version than the
current standard package from my Linux distribution cleanly installed on
my system (probably I'm just not Linux-savvy enough). I've now uploaded
a test file http://lukas-pietsch.de/Music/mensuraltest.ly and the
expected output http://lukas-pietsch.de/Music/mensuraltest.pdf, with the
same snippets as in the documentation pdf. If anybody could be so kind
as to try and run that through their Lilypond installation?

I'd heard about the possibility of writing one's own engravers in
Scheme, which would certainly have been the more elegant way of doing
most of this, but I couldn't find it accessibly documented anywhere and
it didn't seem to be supported on the older versions anyway.
Lukas