Re: Hide and replace a note with text

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

PS. I made some other changes to your code, maybe some of them turn out 
to be helpful.

Am 08.12.21 um 20:29 schrieb Lukas-Fabian Moser:
> Hi Dav,
>
> Am 08.12.21 um 19:50 schrieb Rajesh Baskar:
> > Can you hide and replace a note with a question mark? I kind of 
> > achieved this with the below example. But the question mark is not in 
> > place of the note, it appears below the staff. I can use \override 
> > TextScript.extra-offset = #'(0 . 4.275) to achieve this but I don't 
> > want to hard code the offset as the note to hide can appear anywhere 
> > on the staff.
>
> You can exchange the note head by a markup:
>
> \version "2.22.0"
>
> \language english
>
> questionMark = \markup \general-align #Y #CENTER {
>   \fontsize #7 \with-color "#6A00F4" "?"
> }
>
> \new Staff \with {
>   \omit TimeSignature
> }
> {
>   \cadenzaOn
>   \key c \major
>   \clef bass
>   f1 g
>   % comment to center the question mark
>   % on the actual notehead position:
>   \once \override NoteHead.Y-offset = 0
>   \once \override NoteHead.stencil =
>   #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob questionMark))
>   a
>   bf c'
>   \bar "||"
> }
>
> If you want to do this more often, you might define a shorthand (that 
> then should also contain a "\once \omit Stem" etc.)
>
> Lukas