I created a font to display the neumes. The alphabetic key to each font is a character that is shaped somewhat like the neume it is to represent. Hence `w' is the key for a quilisma. The keys for the simple neumes are as follows:
I defined this font so that the neumes would join if you stuck two of them together. So, theoretically, that's all you have to do to create a compound neume. But in practice, I found that I had to modify some of the neumes to get forms that would combine smoothly. I used (mostly) capital letters for these compound variants: The keys for the compound variants are as follows:
And so, the compound neumes from the previous page can be represented like this:
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