[HN Gopher] The Gregorio project - GPL tools for typesetting Gre...
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       The Gregorio project - GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant
        
       Author : mcookly
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2026-04-17 15:20 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (gregorio-project.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (gregorio-project.github.io)
        
       | CrazyStat wrote:
       | I'm surprised this targets TeX rather than lilypond, which AFAIK
       | is the gold standard for free (as in beer and speech) music
       | engraving.
       | 
       | I checked, and lilypond also offers features for Gregorian chant
       | notation [1]. Has anyone used both and is able to compare?
       | 
       | [1]
       | https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/typese...
        
         | jdelfuego wrote:
         | Good question, they considered it at some point:
         | 
         | > Lilypond is a very good tool, but the part on Gregorian chant
         | is not maintained and very deep modifications would be needed
         | to perfectly align the notes and text.
         | 
         | Source: https://gregorio-
         | project.github.io/gregoriotex/index.html
        
           | jancsika wrote:
           | Circa 2024[1]:
           | 
           | > Note, however, that there are some serious flaws in
           | LilyPond regarding Gregorian notation (especially the non-
           | modern version), and right now there is nobody who works on
           | improving that...
           | 
           | 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-
           | user/2024-10/msg...
        
       | cbfrench wrote:
       | I may be one of the few HN users for whom this is an extremely
       | useful resource. I'm an Anglican priest, so I'm often scanning
       | and pasting bits and pieces of chant into our bulletins. This
       | will, I hope, allow me to create much cleaner looking chant texts
       | in the future! Thank you for sharing it!
        
         | mcookly wrote:
         | Happy to share! There's nothing quite as distracting as a
         | blurry scan of a chant/hymn.
         | 
         | You might be interested in an online editor [1] for small
         | items. (I haven't used it much, but it seems good.)
         | 
         | [1]: https://www.sourceandsummit.com/editor/alpha/
        
       | insensible wrote:
       | I'm interested in what may exist for Byzantine notation.
        
       | jdsnape wrote:
       | I am probably one of the few people here that used this 'in
       | anger'. Around 15 years ago I would typeset orders of service in
       | tex for our college chapel, and enjoyed typesetting the chant -
       | this tool made it really easy and I could produce IMO beautiful
       | documents.
       | 
       | Most of the time people used bitmaps which would be
       | blurred/pixelated or not resize well
        
         | mcookly wrote:
         | > Around 15 years ago I would typeset orders of service in tex
         | for our college chapel
         | 
         | Your chapel was very fortunate.
        
       | mcookly wrote:
       | If anyone is interested in playing around with this wonderful
       | tool, there's an online editor (edit: no affiliation). [1] It is
       | much more responsive than compiling in TeX.
       | 
       | [1]: https://www.sourceandsummit.com/editor/alpha/
        
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