It strikes me more as an issue of horizontal alignment than notehead size. For comparison, here's an example published by Boosey & Hawkes (Britten violin concerto): http://i.imgur.com/fiAgr6B.jpg
On 13:43, Mon 09 Sep 2013, Phil Holmes wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 13:43:45 +0100 > From: Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> > Subject: Re: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow > To: Nick Payne <nick.pa...@internode.on.net>, lilypond-user@gnu.org > List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Payne" > <nick.pa...@internode.on.net> > To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:12 PM > Subject: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow > > > >The noteheads of whole notes are considerably wider than the noteheads > >of smaller value notes, but a whole note harmonic has a notehead that is > >exactly the same width as a harmonic notehead of any lesser value, and > >considerably narrower than the head of a normal whole note. This makes a > >whole note chord look rather ugly when one of the notes in the chord is > >a harmonic. For example, here is the final bar of Villa-Lobos' Etude No 1: > > > >\version "2.17.25" > > > >\relative f'' { > > \key e \minor > > << > > { \override NoteHead.style = #'harmonic-mixed b1 } > > \\ > > { > > \set tieWaitForNote = ##t \stemUp > > \grace { e,,,16~[ gis'~ cis~ e~] } <e,, gis' cis e>1 > > } > > >> > >} > > > > Do you have an image of an alternative design? > > -- > Phil Holmes > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user