Re: On creating a new all-encompassing drum mode (with example)

[Carl Sorensen]

On 6/8/11 8:20 AM, "Carl Sorensen" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 6/8/11 6:36 AM, "Mike J. Bell" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 1) I'd like the halfopen articulation to be a 0 with line straight
>> up-and-down
>> through it instead of slanted...my guess is this mark is embedded in the font
>> and hard to change
> 
> It is embedded in the font, but not terribly hard to change.  What we would
> probably want to do is to add a new articulation with the line straight
> up-and-down, unless we can get agreement that the angled line is wrong.  In
> your opinion, is the angled line wrong, or just a different variant?  Can
> you cite any references that indicate the line should be vertical?  Are
> there any references that indicate the line should be at an angle?  We want
> to make sure that LilyPond does the right thing.
> 

I've since done a bit of research on the current half-open symbol.  It's
used with the angled slash for horn.

So we'll need to add another glyph for drums -- maybe we'll call it
drumhalfopen.

I will do this if I can get my metafont/mf2pt1/fontforge to work properly.

Thanks,

Carl