Re: Half a \prall

[Mats Bengtsson]

Hans Aberg wrote:
> Yes, that is the idea - I am using UTF-8 files in Xcode (Mac OS X 
> 10.4.10). I have also found a Unicode font Euterpe that does it 
> correctly:
>   http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Eimai/191
>
> I also found (replies in the Unicode mailing list) some other Unicode 
> fonts, but U+1D19D is designed wrongly, as a Pralltriller, instead of 
> having only on peak and valley:
>   http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/music.html
>   http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
>   http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/math.html
>   http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/musical_symbols
> Cf.
>   http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
>   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
>
> They have many other useful musical symbols, though.
>
> So the question is how to choose musical symbols selectively from 
> different fonts, and the make say ornament symbols from that.
In general, the font handling library used in LilyPond will try to find 
a matching font
that contains the symbol. Otherwise you can specify the font-name 
explicitly, for example
using a \markup{...} as shown in section "Font selection", at least as 
the font works with
Unicode.

  /Mats