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A line like

\metrics{_ _ _ u u _ _ _ _ _ u u _ _}
   {Qu\acct{i}n \acct{e}t mer-c\acct{u}-ri-um mu-t\acct{a}-to n\acct{o}-mi-ne d\acct{i}-cunt}

is quite confusing so a shorter way for accents would be nice to have. E.g. by using active characters:

\acct{a}   ——>  °a
\acct{ae}  ——>  °{ae}
\lng{a}    ——>  _a
\lng{ae}   ——>  _{ae}
\brv{a}    ——>  ^a
\brv{ae}   ——>  ^{ae}

The above line would become

\metrics{_ _ _ u u _ _ _ _ _ u u _ _}
   {Qu°in °et mer-c°u-ri-um mu-t°a-to n°o-mi-ne d°i-cunt}

Additionally active characters for bows would be also great:

coel\bow{um e}st  ——> coel(um e)st

In that case only ( has to be active and ) part of the parameter definition.

What about fine tuning in this cases?
It should be no problem if \let is used, except for \bow …

Commands to (de)activate this for regular text would be also good to have

• \activatemetrixaccents … \deactivatemetrixaccents
• \metrixaccents{<text with active chars>}
• \activatemetrixbows … \deactivatemetrixbows
• \metrixbows{<text with active chars>}

In general the should be two package options to explicitly active the active characters to prevent bad interactions with other packages:

• active-accents = <true|false>
• active-bows = <true|false>

Check interaction with babel’s active characters!

The small break symbol should not be aligned between symbols but between syllables. (from Bill via e-mail)

\documentclass[12pt, openany]{book}
\usepackage{metrix}
\pagestyle{empty}

\newcommand{\fakesep}{
\raisebox{.83em}{{\rule{.04em}{6.47pt}}}\hspace{-3.6pt}
}
\setlength{\parskip}{10mm}
\begin{document}

In this one, the separator in the word aurarum is over the u, but should be more to the left

\metrics{ _    u  u ' _  _  '   _           _ ' _  u  u '  _   u  u ' _  _ }
        {quod fa-cit au-ra-{r\bow{um e}st} et cus-pi-de  ful-get  a-cu-ta}

In this one, I replaced the separator with my little ``fakesep'' hack code, and the separator is further left

\metrics{ _    u  u ' _  _    _           _ ' _  u  u '  _   u  u ' _  _ }
        {quod fa-cit au-ra-\fakesep{r\bow{um e}st} et cus-pi-de  ful-get  a-cu-ta}

without bow

\metrics{ _    u  u ' _  _ ' u  _           _ ' _  u  u '  _   u  u ' _  _ }
        {quod fa-cit au-ra-rum est et cus-pi-de  ful-get  a-cu-ta}

\end{document}

Add an highlight type that shows an arrow above the symbols (would be better for b/w printing)

(by Bill Linney via E-Mail)

With some typefaces the dot of an \acct preceding an italic f can colic with the descender …

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pxfonts,metrix}

\begin{document}
   \itshape
   somn\acct{i}fero
\end{document}

Hi, it would be great to have line numbering like in the verse package

It would be great to have the possibilty to put stress accents on the top of the long/short markers just like the package metre did, e.g. in this example here:

Since only the vowels are effected by the accents/metric the according symbols should be aligned above the vowel and leading consonants should be ignored when positioning.

The x symbol is a little to low compared with the elementum longum

If used inside of a normal line \metrics should take enough vertical space to place the symbols.

see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/400447/4918

It should be possible to add signs, e.g. quotes, without changing the alignment of the symbols.

\metrics{„do-mum ro-ma-num“}{u u _ _ u}

On option is a command like \mEsc{<„>} (“metrix escape”) that adds a shifting to the symbol (inside of \metrix_print_syllable:n).

This is related with issue #3, and can be a more general approach of hyphen escaping.

Add an option (e.g. starred version of \metrics) to print the syllable hyphens in the output.

There is a third elementum indifferens symbol, which has longum over breve. The abbreviation for it could be _u .

Looks like this: ⏒

Add feature on \metrics to repeat the lat sequence of metric symbols in combination with new syllables.

E.g.

\metrics{_ uu_ _ _|_ _uu _ _ _ } {flos ve-te-ris vi-ni | meis na-ri-bus ob-iec-tust}
\metrics+{flos ve-te-ris vi-ni | meis na-ri-bus ob-iec-tust}

instead of

\metrics{_ uu_ _ _|_ _uu _ _ _ } {flos ve-te-ris vi-ni | meis na-ri-bus ob-iec-tust}
\metrics{_ uu_ _ _|_ _uu _ _ _ } {flos ve-te-ris vi-ni | meis na-ri-bus ob-iec-tust}

The test wether the number of syllable and symbol match, should work in this case too.

An environment version could be possible:

\begin{Metricverses}{_ uu_ _ _|_ _uu _ _ _}
   flos ve-te-ris vi-ni | meis na-ri-bus ob-iec-tust \\
   flos ve-te-ris vi-ni | meis na-ri-bus ob-iec-tust \\
\end{Metricverses}

in this case every line must be processed separately and should end with \\. Maybe a processing as {tabular}{l} in the background works.

Typeset a melody line above of syllables/words with

\melody[<highlights>]{<melody>}{<syllables>}

and a melody without syllables

\melodyline<*>[<highlights>]{<melody>}{<syllables>}

with a starred version to typeset a smaller version, i.e. use a smaller base unit.

The <melody> list constist of numbers, e.g. {0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0} would print something like

               _ _ 
      _      /     \
_ _ /   \ _ /       \ _ _ _

In the normal version the number should be absolute (i.e. always relative to 0) but
both macros should get a “plused” version (\melody+/\melodyline+) to make the melody numbers relative. The above example then would be {0 0 1 -1 2 0 -2 0 0}.

Add a TikZ style every melody and different styles like soft sloped, hard sloped, rectangular, smoothed etc.

Make it possible to say e.g. 4=<2-5>colored highlight.

When escaping a hyphen like this

\metrics{_  _}{vi-{-ni}}

the hyphen will be part of the node and the centering of the symbol isn’t perfect …

Sometimes \bow can collide with the \acct dot …

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{metrix}

\begin{document}
   c\acct{oe}-l\bow{um \acct{e}}st
\end{document}

It would be great to be able to place an inverted \bow above letters to mark resolution (e.g. in Old English poetry), so a new command exactly like \bow but with the following differences/features:

(i) placed above the letters
(ii) with a downward opening
(iii) no clash with stress marks above