Re: [Guidolib-devel] Guido and Renaissance music

[Dominique F. <fo...@gr...>]

>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=88

Thanks for your feedback. In fact, the GuidoLib project is running only for=
 a couple of months as an open source project. It means that we're actually=
 busy with tasks such as project management, documentation, fixing a stable=
 API, portability... However your remarks are welcome and we'll take account=
 of them.
Now, giving a delay to implement the first two points (and the others) isn't=
 possible at this stage (Juergen, Kai, what do you think about the issue?).
Please, keep in touch, things could evolve rapidly.

Best regards,
Dominique Fober