I think what I mention would be a standard practice. At least is what I see from old song books to new song books in shape notes typesetted in Finale.
I'll contact Han-Wen, to see what kind of deal I can get BTW here is a link with some scanned shape note hymns http://members.tripod.com/shapenote/ Eduardo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Sandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eduardo Vieira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:29 AM Subject: Re: merging the shaped note "fa" > On Saturday 14 January 2006 20.12, Eduardo Vieira wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently installed the version 2.7.26-1 and noticed that some changes > > were done on the way to handle the "fas" in usison. Unfortunately it wasn't > > fixed properly. Instead of shifting the notes to avoid collision, they > > should be merged in such a way that only one of the "fa" noteheads would be > > displayed, like a single note with double stems. So the solution lies in > > making one of the noteheads transparent, which can be done manually > > overriding such property. The real problem is in the span of the stem along > > the side of the fa notehead. It needs to be long enough to go from one > > corner to the other of the fa. I know the development team had to do some > > successful adaptations with the case of the do, and I figure this other > > adaptation won't be too hard. > > We still don't know any rules for how this should be done: Since the fa > notehead isn't symmetric, there are two ways of writing a merged fa notehead: > > | > _| > |\| > | > | > > and > > | > _| > |/ > | > | > > To me, it's not obvious which version that should be used in which case. Also, > I know nothing about shaped noteheads, so I don't know anything about common > practise. Do you have any references on how merged shaped fa noteheads > "should" look? > > (btw, I have a feeling that Han-Wen would appreciate sponsorship for fixing > this) > > (as a temporary workaround, you can probably \override Stem #'extra-offset to > position the down stem correctly) > > -- > Erik > _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
