Re: caesura

[Paul Scott]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
>  
>
> > > Are you sure? That looks more like the symbol used to separate
> > > systems. Do you have a scan of the symbol in action?  It's not listed
> > > in Kurt Stone, and Heussenstam gives a handwriting example, that is
> > > more vertically sloped and thinner, like two penlines.
> > >      
> > If you look at the end of the standards document above, the
> > symbol is clearly named ceasura. I'll check the typesetting
> > books I have at home tonight.
> >    
>
> Yes, but the typographical quality of the other symbols in the
> document do not convince me. The symbol is much to black and heavy to
> put in a staff.
I somewhat agree but the choice of fonts chosen for that document should 
be independent of the unicode value used to represent the caesura.  I 
haven't presently got a better example to show.  Maybe someone else 
does?  I would hope that a better example would be generated in the 
fonts used by Lilypond.

Using "//" actually works thanks to Graham ( Thanks! ) but it would be 
better if it actually claimed some horizontal space for itself instead 
of just placing itself on top of whatever is there.

Paul