Re: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow

[Owain Sutton]

It strikes me more as an issue of horizontal alignment than notehead size.

For comparison, here's an example published by Boosey & Hawkes (Britten violin 
concerto): http://i.imgur.com/fiAgr6B.jpg 

On 13:43, Mon 09 Sep 2013, Phil Holmes wrote:
> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 13:43:45 +0100
> From: Phil Holmes <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow
> To: Nick Payne <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org>
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Payne"
> <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:12 PM
> Subject: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow
> 
> 
> >The noteheads of whole notes are considerably wider than the noteheads
> >of smaller value notes, but a whole note harmonic has a notehead that is
> >exactly the same width as a harmonic notehead of any lesser value, and
> >considerably narrower than the head of a normal whole note. This makes a
> >whole note chord look rather ugly when one of the notes in the chord is
> >a harmonic. For example, here is the final bar of Villa-Lobos' Etude No 1:
> >
> >\version "2.17.25"
> >
> >\relative f'' {
> >  \key e \minor
> >  <<
> >    { \override NoteHead.style = #'harmonic-mixed b1 }
> >    \\
> >    {
> >      \set tieWaitForNote = ##t \stemUp
> >      \grace { e,,,16~[ gis'~ cis~ e~] } <e,, gis' cis e>1
> >    }
> >  >>
> >}
> >
> 
> Do you have an image of an alternative design?
> 
> --
> Phil Holmes
> 
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