Re: Making a fake half note

[Mats Bengtsson]

This feature is now described in a subsection of the manual called
"Scaling durations". Can you propose some change to the documentation
that makes it easier to find this useful trick? (Of course, there
are hundreds of different small tricks that may be just as useful in
other occasions and also deserve a nice place in the manual).

   /Mats

Benjamin Esham wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2004, at 8:25 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote:
>
> > Benjamin Esham wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to engrave a quarter note with a half note (i.e., empty) 
> > > head.  I'm
> > > guessing I have to play with the style property of NoteHead; however, 
> > > the
> > > manual doesn't give any indication of what kinds of values this 
> > > property can
> > > be changed to.  What do I need to set style to in order to obtain a 
> > > half note head?
> >
> >
> > I'm sure you can do it that way, it might be easier to do something 
> > like this:
> >
> > a2*1/2
> >
> > which draws a half note, but gives it the metric value of a quarter note.
>
>
> That worked great-- I never would have thought of it.  Thanks!

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