Ah, great, thanks for that. I knew there had to be a way! Regards,
Cameron Horsburgh On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 16:09, Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 06:09, Cameron Horsburgh <cammobla...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm writing a resource for beginner musicians, and many of the early > exercises I'm writing don't use staff lines (Lilypond's 'easy play' feature > is very useful here!) > > > > One problem I have--it's very difficult to distinguish minim/half-note > rests from semibreve/full-note rests, because they're essentially the same > glyph but situated either above or below a staff line. When displaying > these symbols without a staff it's fairly common to add a short line at the > appropriate place on the glyph so the type of rest can easily be > determined. I can't think of any straightforward way to do this in LilyPond > though. > > > > Has anyone else found a way around this problem? > > Hello, > > According to NR A.8 The Emmentaler font, you can use > > \markup \musicglyph "rests.0o" > \markup \musicglyph "rests.1o" > > Kind regards, > Xavier > >
