Well, it depends on what you mean by “technically possible.”
Certainly, the ancient notation feature could be rewritten to not hijack the above lines text and have it’s own vertical positioning controls. Indeed, such a rewriting is likely to be necessary to support the envisioned feature of multiple lines of ancient notation in the same score (or even just moving them to place them between the lyrics and the staff, as you’ll some times find). However, such a rewrite will not be simple task. This feature would be adding at least one, if not two or more new vertical elements to the score, requiring some reworking of how such notation is represented in the gtex files so that they constitute separate objects (as in, not above lines text) to be placed on the score. The TeX side would then need work to figure out how to place those objects (including calculating their positions using spacing parameters which could be tweaked by the user) and the executable would need to be fixed to change how it translates nabc code into the new gtex representation.
Given the amount of work involved, such a feature is likely to be a low priority unless a new developer specifically motivated to work on this problem can be found. As is, I can’t see any of the current developers taking on that task, as we’re all fairly busy and barely have time to work on the already extensive list of issues that are currently open.
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