Originaly, Znamenny chants were written only with znamya and text, no staff notes at all. Music is completely encrypted in znamya itself. But now we need notes, as only few people are familiar with the system and other just learn. Most znamenny books are handwritten as it's wery complex typography problem. Now there exists a Russian community around znamenny chants, they have made a font and their own online editor, but as for me it is of no good use when it comes up to something more than printing a single chant. I try to make chant sets for easy singing and lilypond offers excellent typography. You can see how it looks handwtiten fo example here:
http://www.dyak-oko.mrezha.ru/archive/obichod.zip For modern-typed online examples you may look here:
http://znamen.ru/Give.php?ruk=q303&id=pbex
You will need these fonts to see it correctly:
http://znamen.ru/paraklht.ziphttp://znamen.ru/knijitsa.zip
http://znamen.ru/ortucs8.ziphttp://znamen.ru/odnoglas.phpThat was historical part, now the practical.
1. The may be multiple different colored symbols in one syllable. For example, in "Мк2)" both "М" and ")" should be colored.
2. It could be the ant place of the syllable. I couldn't find middle-placed examples, but it will be needed if we add some spaces in the beginning for some difficult positioning problems.
3. Zero, one or more than one - all is possible. Also, it could be something like "ъ9%я1ХЗз" where "ъ", "9" and "з" should be colored.
4. The list is unchanging, here it is, all case-sensitive (first part are cyrillic letters):
цуУнНгГщзъЪвВаАпПРлЛсСмМиИтТбБю№weEyYuUdDfFgGhHcCvVbBnN4567890=(<*?]}
So, i's not too easy as it must be flexible a lot, but it would be a great help to me.
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