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From: <g...@sdf.org>
To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: Modern custodes?
Is there a way to use the custodes feature of LilyPond, but with modern
glyphs (for example normal notes with the \teeny size), instead of the
funny medieval glyphs? I see in:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/ancient-notation_002d_002dcommon-features#custodes
that four styles are supported (vaticana, medicaea, hufnagel, mensural),
but using any of these in a modern score would not be appropriate I
think.
I had used mensural ones and they worked (i.e. were helpful for singing),
but i'd also like to see "normal" ones supported by LilyPond.
I just grepped through the LilyPond sources. Custodes seem to be handled
by three files: lily/custos.cc , lily/custos-engraver.cc , and
scm/define-grobs.scm . But I do not see how to adapt them to handle other
custode styles. Does anyone have an idea on how to do this? Given that
the code in the C/C++ files does not depend on the particular custode
style chosen, I guess that it is not necessary to modify them, and that
adding another style can be done by defining or adapting a Scheme
function.
Best,
--ghe
I have very little expertise with LilyPond code, but a look at custos.cc
shows that it creates a name for a particular glyph as
"custodes".style.up_or_down.adjustment. So to use anything other than the
current styles without changing custos.cc would involve creating new glyphs,
probably named something like "custodes"."modern"up_or_down.adjustment. If
you wanted to use existing glyphs, you would need to change the C code.
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Phil Holmes
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