Re: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow

[Nick Payne]

On 09/09/13 22:43, Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Payne" 
> <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:12 PM
> Subject: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow
>
>
> > The noteheads of whole notes are considerably wider than the noteheads
> > of smaller value notes, but a whole note harmonic has a notehead that is
> > exactly the same width as a harmonic notehead of any lesser value, and
> > considerably narrower than the head of a normal whole note. This makes a
> > whole note chord look rather ugly when one of the notes in the chord is
> > a harmonic. For example, here is the final bar of Villa-Lobos' Etude 
> > No 1:
> >
> > \version "2.17.25"
> >
> > \relative f'' {
> >   \key e \minor
> >   <<
> >     { \override NoteHead.style = #'harmonic-mixed b1 }
> >     \\
> >     {
> >       \set tieWaitForNote = ##t \stemUp
> >       \grace { e,,,16~[ gis'~ cis~ e~] } <e,, gis' cis e>1
> >     }
> >   >>
> > }
>
> Do you have an image of an alternative design?

This looks a better match for the other whole notes:

\relative f'' {
  \key e \minor
  <<
    {
      \tweak font-size #3
      \tweak style #'harmonic-mixed
      b1
    }
    \\
    {
      \set tieWaitForNote = ##t \stemUp
      \grace { e,,,16~[ gis'~ cis~ e~] } <e,, gis' cis e>1
    }
  >>
}

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