Re: Gregorian chant/Mensural notation: No ledger for custodes beyond 5-line staff

[Matthew Fong]

Hi everyone, 

I posted this to bug-lilypond@gnu.org.

I tried the code snippet at lilybin.com, and both versions there produce the same result as the latest stable version 2.20.

Many thanks,

mattfong

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 9:50 AM Matthew Fong <oxengen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello fellow LilyPonders,

I was engraving a piece of chant in modern notation recently, and discovered that none of the custodes will draw a ledger for middle C (C4) or A5, notes beyond the 5-line staff. These notes do occur in chant and polyphony.

Is there a workaround for this? Or have I missed something fundamental?

\layout { ragged-right = ##t }

\new Staff \with { \consists "Custos_engraver" } \relative c' {

  \override Staff.Custos.neutral-position = #4

  \override Staff.Custos.style = #'vaticana

  c'1^"vaticana" \break

  c,1 \break

  a''1

}

Many thanks,

mattfong