Re: Organ Fingering Notation

2014-04-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Zack wrote: > I'm hoping [...] someone in the musical typesetting world > will know its name and can point me to how to recreate it Well, I don't know its name but I chose a private one once, slightly unlikely so as to avoid conflict with the real name. Search the user archives for my (undocum

Re: Organ Fingering Notation

2014-04-22 Thread Nick Payne
On 22/04/14 14:47, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:19 21/04/2014 -0700, Zack Noname wrote: There is a fingering symbol that I don't know the name of (and so it is hard to look up in the documentation without a name) ... If I want the alto voice on the treble staff played with the left hand there is a

Re: Organ Fingering Notation

2014-04-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:19 21/04/2014 -0700, Zack Noname wrote: There is a fingering symbol that I don't know the name of (and so it is hard to look up in the documentation without a name) ... If I want the alto voice on the treble staff played with the left hand there is a symbol that looks like [ without the bo

Re: Organ Fingering Notation

2014-04-21 Thread Shane Brandes
In mathematics they are called floor and ceiling brackets, in music they are probably still some sort of bracket. There is a request from 2002 for a half bracket. I don't know how to find them in LilyPond documentation either. There is a Unicode u+2308 and u+2309 for the floor and ceiling brackets

Organ Fingering Notation

2014-04-21 Thread zvm
Hi All - New to the list but have used lilypond for years. I have been setting some baroque organ works for some of my students. There is a fingering symbol that I don't know the name of (and so it is hard to look up in the documentation without a name) ... I'm hoping that if I describe it, s