Re: laying out plainsong chant

[Gabe Moothart]

Joram,

Thanks. I noticed that in the feta font there are different rest glyphs:

(http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#rest-glyphs) 

And I guess lilypond is automatically choosing one for the even staff lines (rests.1), and the other for odd lines (rests.1o). Is it maybe possible to override the glyph the same way you overrode the other properties?

TIA,

Gabe

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Noeck <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Gabe,

please always reply to the list, because others might also be interested
and in this case I can't help much.

Here is a parametrized version of \longbar which puts it on the line
number pos. However with odd numbers, ledger lines are drawn for the
rest and it looks different. I don't know how to handle this.

The optimal function could be used in this way:
  a\longbar instead of \longbar -2
But I don't know how to do that.

Cheers,
Joram


\version "2.17.26"


longbar = #(define-music-function (parser location pos) (number?)
  #{

  \override Rest #'font-size = #4

  \override Rest #'staff-position = #pos

  r2*1/4
  \once \override Rest #'extra-offset = #'(-1.3 . 0)
  r2*1/4
  \revert Rest #'font-size
  \revert Rest #'staff-position

  #})


%usage (example)
{
  \cadenzaOn
  r4 \longbar -2 \longbar 2 \longbar 1 r4
}