Hello everyone,

I'm writing a function that places a custos after the double bar to give
singers an indication of the pitch of their next note. Usually, custos are
are used within a piece, but in chant, I have verses that are part of new
scores, and it is helpful to indicate the pitch of the first note.


I wanted to custos to be consistent with the intra-piece custos as I have
set it up, that is,


1/ Notes on the ledger line *up until b'* use custodes.vaticana.u1 (long
stem up)

2/ Notes in between the ledger *up until b'* use custodes.vaticana.u0
(short stem up)

3/ Notes on the ledger line *from b'* use ustodes.vaticana.d1 (long stem
down)

4/ Notes in between the ledger *from b'* use custodes.vaticana.d0 (short
stem down)


And this should work regardless of the key signature of the piece (since
things might get transposed).


May I get some pointers of how the logic might be coded up?


Here is what I have so far, with help from this list, and taken from

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/substitution-function-examples


addCustos =

#(define-music-function (noteList)

(ly:music?)

#{

\tweak NoteHead.stencil #ly:text-interface::print

\tweak NoteHead.font-size #3

\tweak NoteHead.text \markup {

\musicglyph "custodes.vaticana.u1"

}

\tweak Stem.stencil ##f

$(first (music-pitches noteList)) 4

#}

)


Many thanks,
mattfong

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