Hi it's me again :) there are a few issues with custodes I'd like to
address. Namely: the direction and default-direction properties don't do
anything to them so it's kinda non-trivial to get the actual early music
look of all custodes pointing up; and custodes don't engrave if there's a
rest at the start of the line. (Also bonus extra complaint could you
shorten the tail of the mensural custos by like two (2) millimeters so it's
also usable for baroque music which is arguably busier? Or make a slightly
larger, tail-less variant which is what a lot of ppl did late 17th c and
call it baroque style idk)
Worth noting that setting the neutral-position property value to a high-ass
number (like \override Staff.Custos.neutral-position = #20) does work to
make ly engrave all custodes pointing up, thank you Xavier Scheuer on the
mailing list for the tip, so I might just be whining and not actually being
helpful :p
Code example and the result it gives me (I set the style to mensural for
visibility):
\version "2.25.30"
\paper {
indent = #0
ragged-right = ##t
}
\score {
{
a'1 \break %this custos still points down despite the direction = #UP
c''' \break %this custos doesn't get engraved because there's a rest
r2 a'
}
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\omit TimeSignature
\consists "Custos_engraver"
\override Custos.style = #'mensural
\override Custos.direction = #UP
}
}
}
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Excited for the next stable release whenever that might be,
Luise
