Hello all, Let me establish a bit of context before getting to the meat of my question: I mainly use LilyPond for transcribing 5-string banjo music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Pretty much all of this music is in standard notation, but there’s one very banjo-specific convention that I haven’t been able to figure out how to replicate using LilyPond.
On 5-string banjo, the 5th string is a short drone starting at the 5th fret position; it’s typically always played open with the thumb. On modern banjos in standard tuning, the note is G4. Because there are several ways to play a G4 across the banjo fingerboard, there was a convention used for 5th string notes: They were always set with the stem up, and with a sixteenth note flag (regardless of the actual note duration.) Here is an example from a piece published in 1882 (In this instance the 5th string is actually an E4, as banjos used to be tuned lower. The clef is treble_8.): http://andychase.net/img/banjo_5th_string_notation.png All of which is to explain why I’m asking whether it is possible to write a function to format notes in this way, that is: 1) Stem always pointing up 2) Always using a 16th note flag (regardless of the note’s actual duration) I’ve spent a fair amount of time tinkering with this but I’m a little bit out of my depth. Thanks for any suggestions! -Andy _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user