[smufl-discuss] Re: plainchant and mensural notation

[dspreadbury]

Emil wrote:

> Thank you Grzegorz for providing link to the second link. At the end of
> the document, there are glyphs for strophices liquescentes. Recently, I
> have came across one of them in the offertory Ascendit Deus
> (http://www.gregor-und-taube.de/D.6.d_Christi_Himmelfahrt.pdf , p.4, at
> word Alleluia). They are rare, but I suggest these four glyphs to be
added.

I'm open to the suggestion of adding these, but it would be helpful if you
could respond to Grzegorz's point concerning how we should separate them
into components for the multi-note form range; ideally they should be
separated into lower and upper components to be joined with a connecting
line. Thanks.

> My second suggestion is to add glyphs of ligatures for breves and
> semibreves in mensural notation, similar to plainchant
> "porrectus"-glyphs which have been recently renamed. As to my
> understanding, four noteheads (mensuralNoteheadMaximaBlack,
> mensuralNoteheadMaximaVoid, mensuralNoteheadMaximaBlackVoid,
> mensuralNoteheadMaximaWhite) may appear in slanted version of different
> span (2nd-5th), both upwards and downwards.

We had these as separate glyphs at some point (between 0.6 and 0.7, when I
was working in collaboration with Myke Cuthbert on the expansion of the
Medieval and Renaissance ranges) but in the end it was determined that
they were redundant, and the glyphs in the 'Medieval and Renaissance
plainchant multi-form notes' range could be used in their stead. Is there
now consensus that this is incorrect?

Daniel

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