Re: open hihat

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Frank,

> I'm doing a drum sheet in Lilypond and I would like to add the  
> following notation on top of the hihat notes: O---------- to mark  
> an open hihat.
> How to do this? I guess I need to define some \start... \stop...  
> thing?

I think a regular TextSpanner would do the trick...

Hope this helps!
Kieren.
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\version "2.11.33"
\paper{ ragged-right=##t }

drumStuff = \relative
{
        \override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #1
	\override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = \markup  
{ \musicglyph #"scripts.open" \hspace #0.2 } 	c'4 c c c |
        c\startTextSpan c c c |
        c c\stopTextSpan c c
}

\score
{
        << \drumStuff >>
}