David,
The latest set of unstable versions has the rest you speak of, called
rests.2z. Is that the one you're looking for?
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#rest-glyphs
- Abraham
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:45 PM, David Raleigh Arnold-3 [via Lilypond] <
[email protected]> wrote:
> tisimst <tisimst.lilypond <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I couldn't wait any longer, so here's a formal announcement about the
> new
> > music fonts that I've been working on, by way of example. They are all
> 100%
> > LilyPond compatible
>
> Please, a z-s rest? It's newer than the Gutenberg quarter rests you have
> in
> all of the fonts, and it has its advocates. It's especially good for
> complex
> guitar music, because it takes less vertical space.
>
> I call your present quarter a Gutenberg rest because it is a blackletter
> "R", and used in printing as well as writing because the fonts and the
> blackletter writing style developed together in Gutenberg's day. Of course
> the "R" was joined to a straight-sided letter on its left when writing,
> but
> the same form was printed next to a straight sided letter without
> connection.
>
> The z-s rest looks like a backwards "z". It was an improvement on the
> "classical" rest, because it did not cause frequent mistakes.
>
> Regards, Rale
>
>
>
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