5-line staff

[eroux]

Some people requested to be able to work on five lines. It could be an option in TeX.

A difficulty is that in gabc, o already means oriscus, so it can't mean the letter above n... Maybe o0 would be acceptable...

[henryso]

How about n and p ?

[jakubjelinek]

Yeah, I'd say n and p would be better.

[eroux]

ok

[henryso]

If we do five lines, may I request the ability to handle two and three lines as well?

[eroux]

sure!

[henryso]

How do we handle the various bars for 5, 3, or 2 lines? Create a bunch of glyphs for them? How do we position the divisio minor for each of the above? How about the Dominican bars?

[eroux]

I think we can create glyphs for divisio maior for the different number of bars, maybe also create a divisio minor for 5 lines. I don't really know the answer for the way divisio minor and dominican bars should look... I think it would look nice if we keep the same distance with top line and bottom line, making the bar taller (for 5 lines), but I'm not 100% sure... For 2 or 3 lines I really don't know...