Could this be something like a trill notation where you also often parenthesize the secondary note?
David Toms <d...@dgtoms.com> schrieb: >Hello, > >I have been publishing mainly vocal music for over 10 years with >Sibelius. This year I have ditched it for Lilypond, and I am pleased >to say that my first effort using it, a book of vocal music with piano, >is at the printers. The composer says it is the "most elegant >engraving he has ever seen", so well done to everybody! > >I'm well into my second book now, which is SATB choral music >unaccompanied, and I have just come across the first problem that I >haven't been able to solve by recourse to documentation and snippets, >so I have just joined the mailing list in the hope that someone can >point me in the right direction. > >The music makes frequent harmonic changes, and in a lot of places the >composer helps the singers by 'reminding' them with a cue that, for >example, the A sharp they have just sung is the same note as B flat. >This helps singers over difficult modulations. I have looked at a lot >of printed vocal music and this occurs quite often - I'm reluctant to >say I could do it fairly easily with Sibelius! > >The requirement is to produce a small notehead at the enharmonic pitch, >immediately after the preceding note, with both the accidental and the >notehead in parentheses. The notehead is really "text", and should not >affect midi playback, attract lyrics, etc. I tried using markups but >it is nearly impossible to get the notes in the right place on the >staff. After much searching, and trial and error, I got a "nearly >right" >solution, but as the attached snipped shows, the problem with using >"aftergrace" is that the "parenthesised" note can be a long way from >it's parent. > >I suspect that this is something I am missing, probably because I don't >know exactly how to describe the problem so I don't really know where >to >look in the documentation. > >Any suggestions gratefully received. > >David > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >lilypond-user mailing list >lilypond-user@gnu.org >https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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