Re: Black mensural notation

[Robert Memering]

Am 04.01.2011 11:22, schrieb Lukas Pietsch:
> Hi, I'm quite new to Lilypond programming, but I thought I'd jump in at what
> seemed to me to be pretty much the deep end, and try if I could get black
> mensural notation implemented. Here's what I've come up with so far: 
> http://lukas-pietsch.de/Music/blackmensural.ly (source file)
> http://lukas-pietsch.de/Music/blackmensural.pdf (doc)
> 
> It's all just scheme functions and embedded postscript, and works for me under
> the current stable 2.12.3.
> 
> The biggest stumbling block turned out to be black ligatures, which I found no
> other way of doing than rewriting from scratch in a rather hackish way,
> sidestepping the normal ligature engraver completely; and horizontal spacing,
> for which I had to figure out some rather ugly workarounds (probably far from
> optimal).
> 
> If anybody finds it useful, please feel free to use or modify.
> 

Lukas,

I just wanted to say that I am really impressed!
Please keep up the good work.

Regards,
Robert