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
