Re: 17th century English kbd ornaments

[Simon Albrecht]

On 19.07.2016 09:56, Richard Shann wrote:
> > If we did them as
> > ornaments the possibility would arise of being able to use them to set
> > English Virginal Music which uses the slash and double slash,
> those behave rather differently from ornaments, being as you say,
> through the stem.
> > through the stem, extensively - although as folks have noted, nobody
> > really knows what they mean.

How would placing them on the stem make them substantially different 
from other ornaments?

> You may like to look at Denemo's output, as it has a claveciniste menu
> for French ornaments - it also generates coulés which, again, do not
> have the normal attributes of ornaments, so you could get an idea of the
> syntax needed for those too.

Again, the only difference to other ornaments is the placement, so I 
don’t quite understand what you mean. Surely (implementation aside) { 
a\coule } would be perfectly sensible syntax?

Best, Simon