Re: caesura

[Paul Scott]

Graham Percival wrote:

> > As for the caesura, I think  the proper solution is to add the
> > character to the font, and use it with BreathMark  (syntax: \breathe).
> > From what I gather, the symbol is not complicated, so it should be easy.
As long as it can intersect the top one or two lines of the staff.

> > Probably.  Unfortuntely, I don't have an example of it handy (most of
> > the time the conductor just tells us to put it in there, so I make two
> > angled slashed in the music in my messy handwriting :) , and I'm not
> > at all familiar with fonts.
> >
> > Paul, do you have an example you could scan in or something?
I gave this in my second post in this thread:

It is ID113 in unicode visible here: 
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf

> > BTW, you do know that we have a breath mark that looks like little
> > tick ( ie. ' ) through the top staffline.  Would that satisfy Paul?
No, but I'm sure we'll have a good solution here soon.

> I use \breathe quite often, but that's not quite what Paul is after.
>
> Imagine this: the whole orchestra is playing fast 16th notes,
> fortissimo, with an accel.  The music builds up -- and then suddenly
> stops, leaving a few beats of silence before something else happens.
>
> That's the kind of place this symbol is used for (sometimes called
> "railroad tracks").  It's not a breath mark that's used to aid in
> phrasing a lyrical melody; it's a sudden, complete, and perhaps
> unexpected stop.  I think it's used more often in musical theatre
> than in symphonic music.
Probably true.  That's what I was working on when this came up.

I still haven't time to try your other suggestion but I hope to do that 
right away.

Thanks,

Paul