Re: defining custom note heads

[Eric Knapp]

Hello,

I'm trying to get the second option below to work. This is one where
you use markup commands to create the notehead. I can't get the syntax
right, could you also provide an example of that?

Thanks,

-Eric

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, v!ictor address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> There are two things you need to do to create arbitrary noteheads from
> within lilypond:
> 1. change the NoteHead stencil to the text interface:
> \once \override NoteHead  #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
> 2. define the text attribute of the NoteHead. you can put any markup
> command you want. The easiest thing to do is to simply call a
> musicglyph, as in the example below. With musicglyph you can use any
> of the feta font glyphs:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/The-Feta-font#The-Feta-font
>
> But you can also draw lines, circles, etc. basically anything you can
> do in a markup. See
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text-markup-commands#Text-markup-commands
>