A songwriter asked me to type up some of her compositions. Much of the intended audience is in communities that have standardized on Aiken-head notes for most of the past century, and use little else. LilyPond has those shapes, no problem, I thought. But her benchmark is a certain publishing house that uses Finale with a customized font, example at this link:
http://www.prairieviewpress.com/images/pdfs/Kneel_At_The_Cross.pdf I've been able to accommodate several of her requests for appearance changes. But for her taste, the LilyPond 2.19.59 whole and half notes have too little white space on the note head interiors. Apparently I'm working under the expectation that unfilled shaped-note heads be drawn with a thin, uniform line instead of horizontal lines being heavier. I got closer to her ideal by increasing NoteHead.font-size but expect it's possible to do more. Such as fiddling with MetaFont sources, if need be. Before digging in at that level, I did some Googling and found that topics like this have been discussed in the past... https://code.google.com/archive/p/lilypond/issues/602 ...and the 2.19 change log also metions something: "Improved visual spacing of small and regular ‘MI’ Funk and Walker noteheads so they are now the same width as other shaped notes in their respective sets. SOL noteheads are also now visually improved when used with both the normal Aiken and Sacred Harp heads, as well as with the thin variants." http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/index "Thin variants!" I keep seeing that term. What are they, and how would I access them? Maybe I don't need to head for the new-to-me frontiers of MetaFont after all. -- Karlin High Missouri, USA _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
