Am 05.09.2015 um 13:11 schrieb MarcM:
The default Lilypond breath mark is rather anaemic and is placed on the
top
staff line rather than where I normally see it in commercial scores, which
is above the staff (see attached example).
Like Nick i've always seen the breath mark as a comma and higher above the
staff.
There are wonderful facilities to achieve that:
%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.19.25"
{
\override BreathingSign.outside-staff-priority = 1
\override BreathingSign.stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
\override BreathingSign.text = ","
\override BreathingSign.font-size = 3
c'' \breathe c''
}
%%%%%%%%%%%
BreathingSign uses the outside-staff-interface
<http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/breathingsign>,
so you can easily set outside-staff-priority; and the text stencil is
explained in
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/modifying-stencils>.
I’m thrilled myself how easy and manageable this is – big thanks to
those who made it possible :-)
The music from 1900 i am typesetting is using a comma as well.
Personally I must say: I positively adore the Feta BreathingSign used in
LilyPond for its elegance and would never want to exchange it. But I can
confirm e.g. from
<http://imslp.org/wiki/M%C3%B6rike-Chorliederbuch,_Op.19_(Distler,_Hugo)> that
the comma-like appearance is common.
Wikipedia shows it as a comma too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breath_mark
I hardly think that a Wikipedia entrance referring to someone at
University of Virginia is a valuable reference.
Yours, Simon
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