Re: change temporarily to custom clef

[M Watts]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Alternatively, Notation Reference 5.5.3 Modifying stencils, might
> be even closer to what you want.
>
> Trevor
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Orm Finnendahl" 
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> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:56 AM
> Subject: change temporarily to custom clef
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > in contemporary music sometimes unusual "Clefs" are temporarily used
> > within a piece (for example for string instruments clefs where notes
> > indicate the contact point of the bow between fingerboard and bridge).
> >
> > I guess for designing custom clefs one has to define a custom font but
> > I wonder whther there is another less complicated way by making a clef
> > temporarily transparent and putting some Postscript Markup in its place.

You can use Inkscape or whatever to design a single glyph -- no need to 
worry about a whole font.  Inkscape has an option to save as .ps, which 
can then be imported into Lilypond.

There was a thread a while ago about getting the old style bass clef, 
dealing all the postscript jazz.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-02/msg00510.html

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-02/msg00563.html