Cameron Horsburgh <cammobla...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi folks, > > I'm writing a resource for beginner musicians, and many of the early > exercises I'm writing don't use staff lines (Lilypond's 'easy play' feature > is very useful here!) > > One problem I have--it's very difficult to distinguish minim/half-note > rests from semibreve/full-note rests, because they're essentially the same > glyph but situated either above or below a staff line. When displaying > these symbols without a staff it's fairly common to add a short line at the > appropriate place on the glyph so the type of rest can easily be > determined. I can't think of any straightforward way to do this in LilyPond > though. > > Has anyone else found a way around this problem?
I can't think of any straightforward way _not_ to do this in LilyPond. All of \new Staff \with { \override StaffSymbol.line-count = 0 } { r1 r2 r2 } \markup { \rest { 1 } \hspace #1 \rest { 2 } } shows clearly distinguishable rest glyphs with the respective stubs. What did you try that _didn't_ show the line stubs? -- David Kastrup