Re: Quarter notes with bars like \breve

[David Kastrup]

Gregor Giesen <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Simon,
>
> On 28.02.2016 20:12, Simon Albrecht wrote:
>> On 28.02.2016 18:31, Gregor Giesen wrote:
>> > how can I write a quarter note (without stem) embraced by two bars
>> > exactly like a note of the length \breve?
>> 
>> It’s not easy, since the bars belong to the note head glyph used by 
>> breve notes. Probably you need to combine three tools:
>> – [\once] \hide Stem
>> – Overriding the NoteHead stencil using a markup expression: 
>> <http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/modifying-s
>> tencils>
>> – and the \path markup command 
>> <http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/graphic#ind
>> ex-_005cpath-1> 
>> for drawing the actual note head. I don’t have much experience with 
>> this, others on the list might help.
> thanks a lot! I tried the following, which unfortunately does not scale
> well. However, it is a quick fix:
>
> barPath = #'((moveto 0 -.6)
>    (lineto 0 .6)
>    (moveto 1.3 -.6)
>    (lineto 1.3 .6)
>    (closepath))

Working with curveto should likely scale better.

-- 
David Kastrup