Re: Modern custodes?

[ghe]

> > Is there a way to use the custodes feature of LilyPond, but with modern 
> > glyphs (for example normal notes with the \teeny size), instead of the 
> > funny medieval glyphs?  I see in:
> >
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/ancient-notation_002d_002dcommon-features#custodes
> >
> > that four styles are supported (vaticana, medicaea, hufnagel, 
> > mensural), but using any of these in a modern score would not be 
> > appropriate I think.
>
> I had used mensural ones and they worked (i.e. were helpful for 
> singing), but i'd also like to see "normal" ones supported by LilyPond.

I just grepped through the LilyPond sources.  Custodes seem to be handled 
by three files: lily/custos.cc , lily/custos-engraver.cc , and 
scm/define-grobs.scm .  But I do not see how to adapt them to handle other 
custode styles.  Does anyone have an idea on how to do this?  Given that 
the code in the C/C++ files does not depend on the particular custode 
style chosen, I guess that it is not necessary to modify them, and that 
adding another style can be done by defining or adapting a Scheme 
function.

Best,

--ghe