Re: Chinese cadenza

[Carl Sorensen]

On 9/30/09 5:29 PM, "address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>   The attached picture is a Chinese character "san", having many meanings,
> e.g., "distribute/discard", "disseminate", "come loose", "dispel",
> "dispersal", "scattered", etc. The top "grass head" (a horizontal line
> interrupted with two vertical lines) is used in Chinese music to represent a
> cadenza much looser than Western music (mostly like "a piacere"). So I'd like
> to override time signature to this sign. But since I can't see, I don't draw
> PS myself. Also, the lines are thicker then this picture. Could anyone help me
> to draw it?

The grass radical is available as a unicode character.  There are actually
three different ones.  2EBE, 2EBF, and 2EC0.

These characters could be used from a CJK font very easily as a time
signature character.

I think this would be better than using a postscript drawing.

HTH,

Carl