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### 7.7 Ancient notation

Support for ancient notation includes features for mensural notation and Gregorian Chant notation. There is also limited support for figured bass notation.

Many graphical objects provide a `style` property, see

- Ancient note heads,
- Ancient accidentals,
- Ancient rests,
- Ancient clefs,
- Ancient flags,
- Ancient time signatures.

By manipulating such a grob property, the typographical appearance of the affected graphical objects can be accommodated for a specific notation flavor without the need for introducing any new notational concept.

In addition to the standard articulation signs described in section Articulations, specific articulation signs for ancient notation are provided.

- Ancient articulations

Other aspects of ancient notation can not that easily be expressed in terms of just changing a style property of a graphical object or adding articulation signs. Some notational concepts are introduced specifically for ancient notation,

- Custodes,
- Divisiones,
- Ligatures.

If this all is too much of documentation for you, and you just want to dive into typesetting without worrying too much about the details on how to customize a context, you may have a look at the predefined contexts. Use them to set up predefined style-specific voice and staff contexts, and directly go ahead with the note entry,

- Gregorian Chant contexts,
- Mensural contexts.

There is limited support for figured bass notation which came up during the baroque period.

- Figured bass

Here are all suptopics at a glance:

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