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White mensural ligatures

Lilypond has limited support for white mensural ligatures. The implementation is still experimental; it currently may output strange warnings or even crash in some cases or produce weird results on more complex ligatures. To engrave white mensural ligatures, in the paper block the MensuralLigature engraver has to be put into the Voice context (and you probably want to remove the LigatureBracket 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 quite a while to get accustomed, it has a great advantage: this way, lily has full musical information about the ligature. This is not only required for correct MIDI output, but also allows for automatic transcription of the ligatures.

Example:

     \score {
         \notes \transpose c c' {
     	\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
     	\[ e1 f1 a\breve g\longa \]
         }
         \paper {
     	\translator {
     	    \VoiceContext
     	    \remove Ligature_bracket_engraver
     	    \consists Mensural_ligature_engraver
     	}
         }
     }
     
[picture of music]

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

     \score {
         \notes \transpose c c' {
     	\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]
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