Hi Gabriel and Lukas, On 11/05/2026 01:22, Gabriel Ellsworth wrote:
How does the output look to you? If you (like me) wanted to engrave “modern custodes,” does this style look like what you would want to engrave?
I want to help, because I agree that custodes are a very good choice in situations like this. Unfortunately I don’t think I can answer to the hypothetical “if you wanted to engrave ‘modern custodes’”, because I tend to think the "custodes.mensural.xx" glyphs work just fine with modern note heads.
I want to say that I do think the custodes need to look more different from ordinary note heads, and the tiny parentheses look too thin. I wouldn’t write that though if I didn’t have any constructive suggestion. How about hollow diamond note heads (most likely "noteheads.s0diamond")? I feel like that could be fairly intuitive as a note that isn’t supposed to be sung itself.
Another thought that crossed my mind is loaned from text typesetting: how about a single left square bracket before the custos? This could quite clearly signify that the note actually belongs to the following line, and I could even imagine that working with the custos having the full rhythmic value of the following note. The bracket could be made to either span the whole staff or only the note head.
Hope that helps! Simon
