[Guidolib-devel] Guido and Renaissance music

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Dear GuidoLib developers,
I write as a simple Guido user. First of all let me state that I =
appeciate your work infinitely. I believe that Guido is almost perfect a =
tool for encoding and printing of Renaissance music (my field of =
research at Bologna University, Italy), were it not for the following =
points:

1) it would be needed a proper graphic symbol for violin clef transposed =
at octave lower

2) it would be nice if bars could be automatically numbered

3) it would be needed a proper graphic symbol for longa notes (i. e. =
notes 2/1 long)

4) it wouldn't be bad if the meter graphic symbol coulb be kept distinct =
from effective barring; this because in Renaissance music the sign "C\" =
often means barlines every two semibreve (i. e. \meter<"4/2">, but I =
would like if the sign "C\" were displayed instead!)

5) we would need optional diamond and square shape for \noteFormat tag =
(I've seen that the attributes were planned in Guido Advanced Format =
Specification Draft, so why do not implement them?)

6) one would like to be able to decide over accolades appearance and =
shape (ex. "none", "straight brackets", ecc.)

7) it would be needed to have square brackets over groups of notes to =
represent ancient "ligaturae" signs

8) it would be needed a \ficta tag to put accidental over notes (wich =
means that the accidental was not in the original source, but has been =
added by the editor)

9) about the \lyrics tag, it would be better if a series of underscore =
(i. e. prolongation of last sillable over more than one note) would be =
displayed as a single unbroken dash.


I apologize for resembling too much pretending. Actually, all I want to =
know is if you think you can tackle with the over stated issues, and how =
long it could take to implement the first two points at least (the most =
urgent to me!).
I'm not expert about mailing lists, and I hope I didn't use this one in =
a wrong way. I that case, I beg your pardon once more.
Best regards,
Cristiano Vaval=E0