Hi Ben,
> I'm type-setting an old 19th century piano part that includes phrases such as
> the attached image, where the first note of a set of four quavers is drawn
> using a minim notepad (presumably indicating that the key should be held
> whilst playing the other notes). My first thought was that this should be
> possible in lilypond by just overriding the notehead shape but after more
> than an hour trawling through the manual and snippet repositories I couldn't
> work out how. Maybe I'm just using the wrong search terms? Advice greatly
> appreciated!
{ \tweak duration-log 1 a'16 16 16 16 }
Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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