Re: Longa notes

[Juergen Reuter]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> If I remember correctly, it's not included when you have the default note 
> head
> style, simply since there is not real established standard for the layout of 
> a longa
> note in modern typesetting. However, if you use
> \override NoteHead #'style = #'mensural
> you can see what \longa note looked like in the old times when it was 
> actually
> used.

Not really.  Citing scm/output-lib.scm:

   (case style
[...snip...]
     ((default)
       ;; The default font in mf/feta-bolletjes.mf defines a brevis, but
       ;; neither a longa nor a maxima.  Hence let us, for the moment,
       ;; take these from the neo-mensural font.  TODO: mf/feta-bolletjes
       ;; should define at least a longa for the default font.  The longa
       ;; should look exactly like the brevis of the default font, but
       ;; with a stem exactly like that of the quarter note. -- jr
       (if (< log -1)
           (string-append (number->string log) "neomensural")
           (number->string log)))

That is, lily should take a longa from neo-mensural font.  The real 
problem is the 'u' in 'noteheads.u-2': The parmesan font defines a 
symmetric 'noteheads.s-2neomensural', but neither up/down specific heads.
I wonder why an upwards head is at all requested for the default note head 
font.  Maybe something has changed in the noteheads engraver which causes 
this problem?

>  /Mats
>
> Ralph Little wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Running 2.9.17-1 on Windows, I get the following error for c\longa:
> >
> > warning: note head  'noteheads.u-2' not found.
> >
> > I don't really know anything about longas, but I was just experimenting 
> > with
> > different aspects of lily and this popped up...
> >
> > c\breve works fine though.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ralph
> >
> >
> >
> >
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