Gregorio GABC add text above notes?
  • probe
    Posts: 111
    I want to add a line of text in the middle of a score as an explanatory note for the next section.
    At PA(hr)ter
    I have tried PA(hr[Alt:heading])ter
    and PA(hr)[Alt:heading]ter
    and PA(hr<alt>heading<alt>)ter

    They all give me Latex errors. How can that be done, please?
  • Charles_Weaver
    Posts: 188
    Your last one is close, but put it outside the parentheses (and don't forget the slash on the second one) and before the syllable you want it above:

    <alt>heading</alt>PA(hr)ter(h)
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  • probe
    Posts: 111
    Thank you Charles! Would you also know how to get a tie over two notes to help new readers recognise that two successive neumes the same (gg) mean a longer note? The notation in the help doc [ob:0{](gg)[ob:0}] also gives errors.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,432
    It would be in between the parentheses if anything.

    Stuff outside of parentheses is text: words and other symbols, unless it’s between tags as is the case with this form of alt.
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  • Charles_Weaver
    Posts: 188
    If you want to tie those two notes (g) together with a regular curly brace (like a tie in modern music), the (gg) can be replaced with

    (g[ob:1{]g[ob:0}])

    As Matthew pointed out, these go inside the parentheses. You will need to compile twice to get the spacing right.
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  • probe
    Posts: 111
    Thank you both. I'm using run.gregoriochant.org so compilation does not apply to me. This is what I have been working on: an illustration for a talk on chant showing Solesmes notation, a simplified version to show what the compound neumes expand to, a five-line staff notation with a key signature (already limiting singers' choice) and stemless notes, and conventional modern notation with a rigid time signature which shows an awkward splitting of notes over bar lines. (Edit: pdf updated 28-Feb, closer spacing in unpacked neumes)
    Pater si non potest (4 styles).pdf
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  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,432
    Chonak happily runs latexmk so it automatically compiles twice. 6.2 is coming out soon (the beta is out) and will eliminate a lot of these second passes.

    I will still run latexmk because it’s harmless if you don’t need it. But I sometimes have cross references, which require multiple passes in LaTeX.
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