Re: how to get notes without tails?

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 30.08.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard:
> It could help, if there is a parallel glossary in another 
> mothertongue. This is not the case, as there is only an English 
> version - AFAIK. Do you really think, a non English speaker will find 
> a word in an English glossary one does not know?

I’d recommend going to 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/music-glossary-big-page> 
and searching the term you want using your browser (CTRL+F in firefox).
> Beside all that, language is a malleable like Plasticine, that is true 
> especially for English, as everybody must speak English, even if one 
> does not know it (just my case). That is the price of the English for 
> the "lingua franca" of our days! But obviously there are musical 
> sectors that use "tail" instead of "stem" - would you say it is 
> absolutely wrong or really incomprehensible?
It’s odd and difficult to understand to not use the standard term.
> Realize that measure and bar mean the same in different (english 
> speaking) areas of our world.
Agreed. I use these quite interchangeably – which is supported by the LP 
glossary, by the way.

Yours, Simon