Re: Note heads possibilites?

[Thomas Morley]

2017-10-07 0:04 GMT+02:00 Malte Meyn <address@hidden>:
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> Am 06.10.2017 um 23:18 schrieb Menu Jacques:
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> MusicXML is rather rich in terms of note heads, basically:
>>
>>    slash, triangle, diamond, square, cross, x,
>>    circle-x, inverted triangle, arrow down, arrow up, slashed,
>>    back slashed, normal, cluster, circle dot, left triangle,
>>    rectangle, or none
>>
>> and some more.
>>
>> How can I get those with LilyPond?
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>
> Have a look at
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> [1]
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/note-head-styles.html
> [2]
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-emmentaler-font#special-notehead-glyphs
> [3]
> http://lilypondblog.org/2014/04/using-special-characters-from-smufl-fonts/
>
>> Strangely enough, ‘la' and 'diamond' are not mentioned in the NR nor in
>> the snippets, but they are accepted after musicxml2ly generates:
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>
> diamond is mentioned in [1], and it seems as if NoteHead styles can be read
> from the possible note names at [2] and the following section; this would
> explain la and others like mi, laWalker, laThin. It looks like these note
> heads are made for notating solfege but I’ve never seen a notated example.



All possible notehead-glyphs can be viewed with

#(define noteheads
  (filter
    (lambda (s) (string-contains s "noteheads"))
    (ly:otf-glyph-list (ly:system-font-load "emmentaler-20"))))

#(pretty-print noteheads)

Also see:
Documentation/included/font-table.ly


Cheers,
  Harm