Hello, I don't really understand what you want your score to look like about those invisible notehead. Maybe you could post a small picture of what you can do using Finale. And we would see to the right solution.
Joseph wrote: >>> (2) In the second bar, you can see that there are sometimes rests in one >>> voice while the other voice is playing. What I want is, first, that the >>> rests be invisible, but second, that there be short stems where the >>> "notes" (or rests) would be. I tried using s (as in "skip") but did not >>> get any beams or stems. >>> >>> >> That was an uncommon request! The best way I can think of to get the >> stems but >> no note heads is to use ordinary notes but make the note heads invisible: >> \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t > > Uncommon requests are my speciality, I'm very picky about how I want my > scores to look! :-) My instinctive thought would have been to do what I > would do in Finale, which is first to request both beams and stems over > rests, and then make the rests invisible. But I would imagine the first > part isn't possible...? I saw from the manual that getting beams to > extend over rests was supported, but saw nothing about adding stems in. > > What frustrates me about the solution you propose is that it's a "cheat" > that takes away from what I have already learned to love about Lilypond, > its attempt to create correspondence between notation and the logical > structure of the music. > > The reason why I want this particular notation, btw, is that the passage > is a mixed multiphonic/monophonic passage and I want to represent both > the two voices and the continuous sound that results. > >>> (3) Is it possible to get alternative quarter-tone symbols? In >>> particular I don't like the 3/4-flat sign; I'd much rather have the >>> combined backwards-flat plus ordinary flat "db" sign. In other pieces I >>> might want to use accidentals-with-arrows as sometimes that seems to be >>> a preferable option. >>> >>> >> You could try something like: >> >> \once \override Accidental #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print >> \once \override Accidental #' > > OK. There isn't a way to write into the setup once and for all, "the > 3/4-flat accidental is ..." ? Maybe you can create a variable and add it to share\lilypond\current\ly\property-init.ly
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