AnthonyFok

gly - alternative Gregorio input format
@igneus Worry not. "Hopefully soon" is my way of saying that it could be a rather long wait before gly actually ends up in Debian: I haven't worked on any Debian package for Ruby, so I will have lots to learn before I have anything …

Comment by AnthonyFok May 2016 permalink
gly - alternative Gregorio input format
Will be packaged for Debian soon, hopefully: https://bugs.debian.org/824820

Comment by AnthonyFok May 2016 permalink
Chinese plainchant in gregorio
I was told by an Anglican priest who has spent a lot of time in Hong Kong that, because of this translation/language issue, the Chinese government (and many Chinese people) effectively see Catholicism and Protestantism as completely different religi…

Comment by AnthonyFok May 2016 permalink
Is it permitted to sing Federico Caudana's "Lauda Sion" as Corpus Christi sequence?
The Church has defined two choices: the full text; a specific subset of the full text. We are not given the option to swap texts or verses with other texts or verses. Thank you for your straight answer. I have the same gut feeling, though a bit dif…

Comment by AnthonyFok May 2016 permalink
Chinese plainchant in gregorio
Poor English? Surely you jest. Thanks! But no, I am serious: I find my own writing very repetitive, long-winded, misusing terminology, and possibly grammatically problematic, and at times unclear, causing confusions and all, as has happened in some…

Comment by AnthonyFok May 2016 permalink
Chinese plainchant in gregorio
Mandarin Chinese is a language that uses pitch inflection for meaning, so wouldn't it be difficult to translate chant? Mandarin does have 4 tones, which, listed as IPA pitches, are: 55, 35, 214, 51. That said, normal Mandarin speech does not …

Comment by AnthonyFok May 2016 permalink
Chinese plainchant in gregorio
Thank you benstox! Good to hear that I am not alone. :-) The Gregorio and LuaTeX-ja compatibility issue is now reported on Gregorio Project’s GitHub repository here: https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/issues/1107, titled "Square no…

Comment by AnthonyFok May 2016 permalink

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