Hi, Karlin!
First off, congrats! Hope this all works out for you.
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Karlin High [via Lilypond] <
ml+s1069038n203743...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Try using this:
aikenHeadsThin = \set shapeNoteStyles = ##(doThin reThin miThin faThin sol
laThin tiThin)
And then calling it with \aikenHeadsThin.
HTH,
Abraham
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