hi Mike, > I'm stuck on a form of ligature that uses the descending diagonal neume > to indicate two notes, and has a rising stem on the left.
> \[ d\longa c\breve \] % gives the right diagonal neume, but no stem > \[ d1 c1 \] % gives the stem, but separate > % diamond-shaped note heads > I have read the section on white mensural notation, the definitions of > ligature objects, and every mention of ligatures and mensural notation > in the Scheme files. On the possibility that there was an invisible > stem, as the manuals says there is for whole notes, I tried overriding > transparency and color of the Stem object, to no avail. > I'm not sure what note durations are intended in the manuscript it's \[ d1 c1 \]. ligatures in lilypond can currently be engraved only in one shape, although some combinations could be written (and were written, as you've noted) in several ways. see ligature-description.txt in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-02/msg00198.html on how to write (read) ligatures. hth, p _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
