Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

[Mats Bengtsson]

Daniel Johnson wrote:
> In my experience, this rest looks like a backward eighth-rest;

You mean like the one shown in the third score line in the example
called rests.ly in the Tips and Tricks document? It's also described
in the section on "Ancient rests".

> occasionally one sees it with both an upper and lower flag, hence the
> "Z" -- though actually it's a backward "Z". 
This one, we don't have for the moment. If you have a chance to send a
scanned copy from some old score to the mailing list and perhaps some
sponsoring to Han-Wen, you might see it in future versions.

   /Mats