Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2823 in lilypond: Patch: Fixes position of mensural c clef

[lilypond]

Comment #12 on issue 2823 by address@hidden: Patch: Fixes position  
of mensural c clef
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2823

@Pal: The mensural clef is closest to the ones I show above from the Dufay  
work, so I do want/need a clef similar to this.  Ideally, such a clef would  
not have the top and bottom "breve" linked in the way the current one does.
@Harm and Dak: I knew MGG pointed to that encyclopedia.  However, despite  
having student access to Grove online, I have no access to that work and so  
have no way of assessing whether the original clef glyph was based on true  
information there, or on a false reading or a copying error in the  
original.  What I can repeat is that, having looked at a large number of  
mensural C clefs by a variety of early copyists, there is no habit of  
centering the C clef on the B stave.  Lilypond's current placement of the  
mensural C clef is simply wrong.
@David: if you have actual proof of the C clef being placed on the B stave,  
please show it.  Otherwise this change has to be accepted.
@Werner: a repeat.  Please state exactly how the patched version "distorts  
the shape".  Without that information I'm unaware of any change needing to  
be made.