Re: defining custom note heads

[James E. Bailey]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, v!ictor address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello Brian,

There are two things you need to do to create arbitrary noteheads from

within lilypond:

1. change the NoteHead stencil to the text interface:

\once \override NoteHead  #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print

2. define the text attribute of the NoteHead. you can put any markup

command you want. The easiest thing to do is to simply call a

musicglyph, as in the example below. With musicglyph you can use any

of the feta font glyphs:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/The-Feta-font#The-Feta-font

But you can also draw lines, circles, etc. basically anything you can

do in a markup. See

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text-markup-commands#Text-markup-commands

Am 07.07.2008 um 18:04 schrieb Eric Knapp:

Hello,

I'm trying to get the second option below to work. This is one where
you use markup commands to create the notehead. I can't get the syntax
right, could you also provide an example of that?

Thanks,

-Eric

They work in tandem, not independantly, first, you change the NoteHead stencil to the text interface, (see previous code), then you define the musicglyph that you want to use as a notehead.

See http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=475

(and just as I finish complaining that I can never find anything on the lsr…)