Re: (was) Some drum notation questions - (now) problem with noteheads in doc?

[Marc Hohl]

Am 04.01.2012 19:59, schrieb James:
> On 4 January 2012 18:55, James<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On 4 January 2012 18:32, Vaylor Trucks<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > I have been using lilypond for years for my own projects and have recently
> > > introduced it to a friend of mine.  He is a drum instructor and has been reading
> > > drum notation for many years.  He's pointed out some things that are
> > > non-standard about the way lilypond handles some drum notation tasks.  Most of
> > > these I have been able to correct using a #(define block.  There are, however,
> > > some things I have not yet been able to crack.
> > >
> > > First, for hi-hat, the notation for open and closed are correct, but for the
> > > half-open he would like to appear exactly like the open hi-hat notation, except
> > > the "o" above the stem of the note needs to have a single slash through it.
> > >
> > > Also, the note head for a China cymbal he notes by having a standard cross note
> > > head, but with a box around it.
> > >
> > > Can anyone point me in the right direction for making these changes?
> > I have no experience of doing this but you might want to start here
> >
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/modifying-stencils
> >
> > The percussion notes are all here:
> >
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/percussion-notes
> I've just noticed that most of the note heads on
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/percussion-notes
>
> here are semibreves insetad of I assume lots of crosses and circles etc.
>
> The PDF from 2.15.22 also show this.
>
> Can someone verify this?

In the documentation, namely

Documentation/included/percussion-chart.ly

the notes are defined as whole notes:

\drummode {
   \cadenzaOn

   bda1^\markup { \center-align "acousticbassdrum: bda" }

As whole notes make not much sense in percussion parts IMHO,
a change to
  bda4^\....

should Do The Right Thing (tm).

Marc