Hello Karl, On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 18:47:56 +0000 Karlin High <[email protected]> wrote:
> Back in June, I was typing up some Aiken-heads music for a client. We > ran into a problem shown in the attached PNG and LY files, where > white-head notes end up too dark at lower staff sizes. The problem was > resolved by using thin-variant Aiken heads. However, arriving at that > solution was a little challenging. With web searches, I was able to find > that the thin-variant note heads existed, but not how to access them. A > post to lilypond-user got good help from Abraham Lee. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-06/msg00137.html > > The solution was: > > aikenHeadsThin = \set shapeNoteStyles = ##(doThin reThin miThin faThin > sol laThin tiThin) > > Now I am wondering about having this information posted somewhere more > prominently. I understand the options could be... > > a snippet for the LSR, > a reference in the documentation, perhaps under NR 1.1.4 Shape note heads, I'll make a patch and include a snippet it in the NR. > adding a feature to LilyPond, the command \aikenHeadsThin I'll create a tracker for this suggestion too as this is a more long term solution (perhaps). Regards James _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
