feature request: turn off EUOUAE on for grenextscore #1758

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1. davidweichiang commented on May 21, 2026

   

   davidweichiang

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   Can you please clarify? For example, could you show what you would like the score/TeX to look like? Maybe \greseteuouae{keyword} where keyword is visible, invisible (takes up no space), or phantom (takes up space but does not print), as in #1683?
2. MRoth1910 commented on May 22, 2026

   

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   Sure.

   Default should be visible.

   I think I would prefer invisible so the score prints at the last (::) and ignores everything after it; I don't personally see a use case for phantom since the will go to a new line if needed, which we probably don't want…
3. fiat96 commented on Aug 7, 2026

   

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   I second this request, but I think a different approach might be more widely applicable.

   For instance, I experience the same inconvenience with the Euouae, but the intonation star (*) is also something that typically disappears the second time an antiphon is printed. So, like OP, I've been having to make two gabc files for each antiphon in a publication.

   My proposal - and I have no idea if this is viable - is to make a tag in the gabc that could be toggled in tex. For instance, if we used <x>, then

   (c4) PRo(f)té(fffd)ctor(ef) no(ghhg)ster(g.) <x>*</x>(,) 
   á(gjj)spi(h)ce,(g) De(h_f/h_g/hffef)us,(fe..)  (::) 
   Gló(hg)ri(gh)a(h) Pa(h)tri.(h) (::)
   <x><eu>E(h) u(h) o(gf) u(gh) a(g) e.</eu>(e.) (::)</x>
   

   could be invoked with something like \gresetfirstrepetitiontext{0} (I have no idea what to call it) to remove everything in the tags.

   This, used in combination with \gresetinitiallines and firstsyllableinitial would improve QOL significantly for projects with repeated antiphons by eliminating the need for two gabc files.
4. MRoth1910 commented on Aug 8, 2026

   

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   I rarely print full antiphons twice in my own case, and I personally prefer doing something different than in real books (not using Ant. for an annotation, as I don't use a large initial for repeats). However, sometimes I do…and on those rare occasions I could be convinced to do something different if it meant only one file.

   Personally I usually use * directly: taking that into account as well as the Gregorio-provided formats would work well, although those don't go in tags, and there's no need for that, as this would cause a lot of issues for existing scores.

   I think the shorter the name with the fewer arguments the better: if that means multiple commands, so be it. Yes, one good thing about LaTeX is the number of arguments, but getting them right is such a pain…and David's proposal is short and clear.
5. fiat96 commented on Aug 10, 2026

   

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   I concede these points, and on a second reading, David's solution would work just as well; I would just need to put the asterisk in euouae tags.

   That said, couldn't it be useful to have a second tag, so that the the visible / invisible / phantom functionality could be used independently of the <euouae> functionality?