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White mensural ligatures

There is limited support for white mensural ligatures. The implementation is still experimental; it may output strange warnings or even crash in some cases or produce weird results on more complex ligatures.

Syntax

To engrave white mensural ligatures, in the paper block the Mensural_ligature_engraver has to be put into the Voice context, and remove the Ligature_bracket_engraver:

         \paper {
             \translator {
                 \VoiceContext
                 \remove Ligature_bracket_engraver
                 \consists Mensural_ligature_engraver
             }
         }
     

There is no additional input language to describe the shape of a white mensural ligature. The shape is rather determined solely from the pitch and duration of the enclosed notes. While this approach may take a new user a while to get accustomed, it has the great advantage that the full musical information of the ligature is known internally. This is not only required for correct MIDI output, but also allows for automatic transcription of the ligatures.

For example,

             \property Score.timing = ##f
             \property Score.defaultBarType = "empty"
             \property Voice.NoteHead \set #'style = #'neo_mensural
             \property Staff.TimeSignature \set #'style = #'neo_mensural
             \clef "petrucci_g"
             \[ g\longa c\breve a\breve f\breve d'\longa \]
             s4
             \[ e1 f1 a\breve g\longa \]
     

[picture of music]

Without replacing Ligature_bracket_engraver with Mensural_ligature_engraver, the same music transcribes to the following:

[picture of music]


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