Re: Maxima...

[Mark Probert]

Bockett wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure there is a modern version of a maxima, as there
> is of a breve or a long.  
>
Sure. According to Groves it was pretty much dead by the end
of the 17th C. 

> 
> Lilypond provides a perfectly reasonable way to notate
> a maxima for any foreseeable purpose.  That should suffice.
> 
It does, as previously noted.

> 
> Be grateful for what you have--it's an amazing package!
> And be grateful to the folk who maintain and extend it.
> 
Agreed. However, being a newbie to this package, when I 
have a problem, or a perceived problem, I can either ask
on this forum or not. My post is about a non-intuitive 
feature--Why the rest and not the note?--that is not clearly
documented ("If you need a maxima/large use Baroque note heads,
there is no maxima notes in the standard set"). 

Thanks for the chat!