Re: Stemless and metrum-free notes

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Jiri,

2008/12/10 Jiri Zurek <address@hidden>:
> Hallo,
> after reading through your manual, I did not find any information on the
> possiblity of using the musical noteheads without stems and in a metrum-free
> music (such as gregorian chant). I found the vaticana notation style. It is
> very appealing but it is somewhere else. I want to use normal noteheads and
> normal staffs with normal clefs, but using it for music which has no strict
> metrum and therefore only noteheads can be used and no bars, measures and such
> like. Thank you,
> Jiri Zurek

This snippet should give you a few ideas:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Ancient-notation#chant-or-psalms-notation.ly

Regards,
Neil