As long as it can intersect the top one or two lines of the staff.As for the caesura, I think the proper solution is to add the character to the font, and use it with BreathMark (syntax: \breathe). From what I gather, the symbol is not complicated, so it should be easy.
I gave this in my second post in this thread:Probably. Unfortuntely, I don't have an example of it handy (most of the time the conductor just tells us to put it in there, so I make two angled slashed in the music in my messy handwriting :) , and I'm not at all familiar with fonts.
Paul, do you have an example you could scan in or something?
It is ID113 in unicode visible here: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
No, but I'm sure we'll have a good solution here soon.BTW, you do know that we have a breath mark that looks like little tick ( ie. ' ) through the top staffline. Would that satisfy Paul?
I use \breathe quite often, but that's not quite what Paul is after.Probably true. That's what I was working on when this came up.
Imagine this: the whole orchestra is playing fast 16th notes, fortissimo, with an accel. The music builds up -- and then suddenly stops, leaving a few beats of silence before something else happens.
That's the kind of place this symbol is used for (sometimes called "railroad tracks"). It's not a breath mark that's used to aid in phrasing a lyrical melody; it's a sudden, complete, and perhaps unexpected stop. I think it's used more often in musical theatre than in symphonic music.
I still haven't time to try your other suggestion but I hope to do that right away.
Thanks,
Paul
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