Re: Making a fake half note

[Benjamin Esham]

On Nov 6, 2004, at 8:25 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote:

> Benjamin Esham wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to engrave a quarter note with a half note (i.e., empty) 
> > head.  I'm
> > guessing I have to play with the style property of NoteHead; however, 
> > the
> > manual doesn't give any indication of what kinds of values this 
> > property can
> > be changed to.  What do I need to set style to in order to obtain a 
> > half note head?
>
> I'm sure you can do it that way, it might be easier to do something 
> like this:
>
> a2*1/2
>
> which draws a half note, but gives it the metric value of a quarter 
> note.

That worked great-- I never would have thought of it.  Thanks!

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