Re: Unfamiliar articulation symbol (David Kastrup)

[David Kastrup]

Guy Stalnaker <address@hidden> writes:

>>> There is an articulation symbol used that I cannot find in Lilypond's
>>> documentation. It is the same symbol as the marcato, except upside down. I
>>> have no idea what it is. I thought perhaps to take the Marcato symbol and
>>> simply rotate it 180-degrees. But alas I have been unsuccessful at
>>> ferreting out exactly the required directives to make this happen. I tried:
>>
>> rmarcato = \tweak rotation #'(180 0 0)
>> \marcato
>>
>> {
>>   c\rmarcato
>> }
>>
>>> 1. Does anyone actually know what this symbol is? Again, looks like a
>>> Marcato except rotated 180-degrees.
>>
>> Maybe it _is_ a marcato.  And the symbol has been reoriented in musical
>> practice when violinists confused it with \upbow.
>
> David,
>
> I should have said I'm using v2.16.2.

\tweak #'rotation ...

-- 
David Kastrup