Re: Minor calor, ligature, ancient notation

[Robert Memering]

Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 17:02 schrieb Karl Hammar:
> Karl:
> > Anyone know how to do the minor calor ligature (se circled part in
> > attachment).
>
> ...
>
> Ok, this is what I have hacked together
> (tag: nor = modern notes, men = mensural score, part = mensural parts)
>
> fakeLiga = {
>   \once\override Staff.HorizontalBracket #'bracket-flare = #'( 0 . 0 )
>   \once\override Staff.HorizontalBracket #'thickness = #1.6
>   \once\override Staff.HorizontalBracket #'edge-height = #'(0.7 . 0.7)
> }
> ...
>   \tag #'(men part) {
>     g1 \[ d \melisma
>         % this is a fake minor calor, together with the moved b4
>         \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'( 0.9 . -1.8)
>         a'1*3/4^\markup{ \beam #0.9 #0 #0.5 }
>         \]
>     \tag #'part {
>       \once \override NoteHead #'extra-offset = #'( -7.7 . 0 )
>       \once \override Stem     #'extra-offset = #'( -7.7 . 0 )
>     }
>     \tag #'men {
>       \once \override NoteHead #'extra-offset = #'( -10.5 . 0 )
>       \once \override Stem     #'extra-offset = #'( -10.5 . 0 )
>     }
>     b4   c2 g |
>   }
>   \tag #'nor { g1 \fakeLiga d\startGroup \melisma a'2.\stopGroup b4 c2 g |
> }
>
> Anyone having a better solution?
>
> Regards,
> /Karl


Hi Karl,

very tricky solution.
However, just for the sake of people that might search
for a topic like this: It's "minor color", not "calor".

Regards,
Robert


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