Re: help on note head, thanks

[David Kastrup]

Jinsong Zhao <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2017/3/3 17:02, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Jeffery Shivers <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Jinsong Zhao <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 2017/3/3 10:35, Jeffery Shivers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Jinsong Zhao <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a violin score, I saw something similar to the following code, but the
>>>>>> second voice b4 was displayed as a triangle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have a screenshot or small image you could attach which shows
>>>>> the notehead you want? Was it definitely a triangle, by the way? Not a
>>>>> diamond?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't know that I could post image into a mailing list. Please find the
>>>> attached small screenshot.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hm. I studied violin for twelve years and have no idea what that
>>> means. It could mean some harmonic technique; maybe it is that
>>> composer's (confusing) shorthand to playing a fifth artificial with b
>>> pressed, f# touched, sounding an octave up from that. But it makes no
>>> sense to write it that way, so must mean something else..
>>
>> I guess that this is a beginner's book and this indicates fingering the
>> B3 in advance simultaneously with the F4♯ by pressing down on both with
>> your middle finger.
>>
>
> Yes, it's a score from a beginner's book. Thanks you very much for the
> explanation. Now, the question. How to typeset it in lilypond to get
> the same output?

This particular instance can be fudged using

\relative c' {
  \key g \major
  dis16[
    << fis
       \new Voice \with \voiceTwo \palmMute b,1*0
     >>
    b16 ais]
}


This uses a visual whole note (to have the Stem omitted) with a duration
scaled to zero and in palmMute NoteHead style.  Ugly (and the Midi will
likely be unusable), but it should get the ledger line printed and the
position indicated correctly.

A smoother replacement would likely be a pitched rest (also gets the
ledger line and position as needed) with the stencil replaced by the
triangle.  That would be fine for Midi and also a better semantic match.
But more work.  Takers?

-- 
David Kastrup