Re: Caesura

[Paul Scott]

Will Oram wrote:

> Is there a fast way to place a caesura on top of or next to a bar to 
> indicate a musical pause? I'm not talking about the Gregorian caesura 
> (\caesura), which is just a dinky comma. I speak of the 'railroad 
> tracks' used in current notation.
>
> Before I try printing a caesura over a notehead and then moving it 
> over manually, is there a faster way to print it -- or anything -- 
> over a barline?

That was implemented with the \breathe command some time ago.  This is 
what I use to change the glyph:

caesura = {  \override BreathingSign
              #'text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts-caesura")
}

I haven't tried it recently.  The last time I did the glyph was a little 
different than I expected but I think it has been redone.

Paul Scott