changing the formatting of first syllable after initial

[eroux]

Currently Gregorio uppercases the first syllable after the initial, which make it impossible to "small capitalize". For example

initial-style:1;
%%
(c4) P<sc>ri</sc>(f)<sc>mus</sc>(gh)

doesn't work. The solution, I believe, would be to have a \firstsyllablestyle that defaults to uppercase, but can be changed by the user. This requires some intervention of what is certainly the biggest spaghetti plate of gregorio, lib/characters.c, and requires bravery.

[eroux]

If anyone is brave enough for this, #42 could be fixed at the same time (it is in the same function).

[henryso]

I would like to try to fix this and #42, in order to get a better feel for that code, but I will most likely not have a satisfactory fix by release-3.0. If we need it for release-3.0, I suggest someone with more experience take a look at it.

[eroux]

Well, that's very brave of yours! This code is really terrible... I thought it would be ok for 3.1, but after thinking back about it, it might introduce a backward-incompatible change: the letters of the first syllable won't be uppercased in the .gtex files after this change.

Maybe the best solution would be to change the c code only to remove the current uppercasing, and do the uppercasing in TeX (it's easy to know if current syllable is the first one). It will solve the issue in a much simpler way. What do you think?

[henryso]

Are you sure gregorio capitalizes the first letter? It doesn't seem to do that for me.

foo.gabc

%%
(c3) test(d)

foo.tex

% File generated by gregorio 3.0.0-beta
\gregoriotexapiversion{3.0.0-beta}%
\begingregorioscore%
\greinitial{t}%
\grebeginnotes %
\gresetinitialclef{c}{3}{a}%
\gresyllable{}{e}{st}{1}{\gresetnextsyllable{}{}{}}{}{0}{%
\grelastofscore %
}{%
\greglyph{\char 178}{d}{g}{0}{}{}%
}%
%
\endgregorioscore %
\endinput %

[henryso]

I think the bug is something else. It's emitting something weird for \gresyllable. Or at least it seems that way to me.

bad.gabc

%%
(c4) Test(e/ec)ing(d)

bad.tex

% File generated by gregorio 3.0.0-beta
\gregoriotexapiversion{3.0.0-beta}%
\begingregorioscore%
\grefirstlinebottomspace{1}{0}%
\greinitial{T}%
\grebeginnotes %
\gresetinitialclef{c}{4}{a}%
\gresyllable{\gresmallcaps{}{e}{}\gresmallcaps{st}}{0}{\gresetnextsyllable{\gresetfixednexttextformat{3}}{i}{ng}}{}{0}{}{%
\greglyph{\char 178}{e}{e}{0}{}{}%
\greendofelement{0}{0}%
\greglyph{\char 5283}{e}{d}{1}{}{}%
}%
\gresyllable{\gresetfixedtextformat{3}}{i}{ng}{1}{\gresetnextsyllable{}{}{}}{}{0}{%
\grelastofscore %
}{%
\greglyph{\char 178}{d}{g}{0}{}{}%
}%
%
\endgregorioscore %
\endinput %

[eroux]

Oh, I see, it seems I made the wrong diagnostic... Looks like a bug in characters.c indeed.

[henryso]

The dump looks right, so I'm thinking the error is in gregoriotex-write.c.

[henryso]

I've found some other edge-cases I've missed in the pull request for this issue. I'll work on them and create a new pull request.

[henryso]

Closing this issue. If additional breaking cases are found, we can reopen this or open a new issue.