Thanks for the further hints. > Michael O'Donnell wrote: >> Thanks to Mats for this tip, which also helps me with a similar >> project (I'm trying to set some old mensural notation just as given >> by the 15th century copyist, who has somewhat different conventions >> from those in LilyPond). >> >> So, I managed to set some triangular heads, which I cooked up by >> rotating one of the shape-note heads. > I hope you have searched the mailing list archives. I seem to remember > some > recent discussions related to triangular note heads and the stem > attachment > of these. I searched "triangle", "triangle notehead", and "triangular notehead", but the only relevant stuff I found was this thread. There is stuff about triangular percussion notes, the up-pointing triangular shape note, and someone's desire for a downward-pointing triangular notehead. The shape I need is a counterclockwise 90 degree rotation of the shape-note. I can get it within a markup, but not as a glyph. >> Remaining problems: >> >> Get the stems to attach properly (they seem to default to the top >> center). Here's what I thought would do it:
\once \override NoteHead #'stem-attachment = #'(1 . 1 ) I find that the second component controls the vertical point of attachment, as verified by experiments with different values. But, for a wide range of values for the first component, the attachment remains at the horizontal center (as it is for the diamond-shaped mensural note that I am modifying). >> For the future, it would be great to have a user-settable list of >> noteheads for each duration as a parameter. > Even better, you can already now specify a Scheme function that > determines > what note head to print. The function is specified using the property > glyph-name > of the NoteHead object and the implementation of the default function > note-head::calc-glyph-name can be found in the file > .../scm/output-lib.scm. I researched this, but alas it only seems to allow selection of an existing glyph. I am using a markup with a rotated glyph. I haven't found a way to let a markup masquerade as a glyph. I have a similar problem trying to redesign the clef sign. I tried what I thought was the analagous tweak used for time signature and notehead to substitute a markup, but only succeeded with a glyph straight from the Feta font. Cheers, Mike O'Donnell _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user