Re: defining custom note heads

[James E. Bailey]

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:09 PM, James E. Bailey  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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…)



Am 07.07.2008 um 19:46 schrieb Eric Knapp:
> I have it working when you define glyphs, like this:
>
> headCircle  = {\once \override NoteHead  #'stencil = #ly:text- 
> interface::print
>              \once \override NoteHead #'text = #(markup #:musicglyph
> "scripts.flageolet" ) }
>
> What I can't get to work is what Victor mentioned but didn't give and
> example for. Here's what he said,
>
> "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 
> "
>
> I can't figure out the exact syntax for when you use markup and not a
> glyph. I would love an example like the one above with markup.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Eric

You have it working correctly. when you have #(markup #: whatever  
markup) that's just the scheme way of calling a markup.