On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013/12/24 23:22:00, Carl P. wrote: > >> This may well need to happen. As I said, I've tried a few times over > > the >> >> last 8 or 9 months to inquire about the mi head particulary, with no >> response. > > > If you're the only person on the lists who cares, then you should be > able to have it the way you want it. > > I'm curious, though, about the usage in chords. In particular, it seems > that chords in Walker notes can't possibly line up, since do is centered > on the stem. Are chords commonly used in shape notes? Every reference > I've seen has no chords -- only single notes.
Depending upon the style sheet, shaped notes have varying usage in chords. Even in single-note formats (Sacred Harp, Southern Harmony, etc.), there are examples of two notes being given for one part (optional octaves or providing a second note to complete the chord, typically SOL). For my own work, notes are nearly always written in chords, unless the notes are less than a third apart or there is a difference in rhythm. LilyPond's implementation of chords with Walker is to center the stem if the notehead nearest the stem is DO or to act normally otherwise. > > I'm fine to have this pushed if nobody else objects. But I do like > David K.'s suggestion of a message on -user with before and after > shapes. > I have sample PDFs I generated showing before and after, both singly and in chords. I haven't yet had time to convert/compress those examples to smaller file sizes for sending to -user, but hope to in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I'll probably take the patch off the countdown. Carl P. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
