Work around note head bug.

[Garrett McGilvray]

Dear users,

There is a bug in the Mac version where the Re half-note in \aikenHeads renders as a quarter note in 2.16, and the problem just swaps for the whole note in 2.17. This has been reported to the bug list, but I'm wondering how to work around it in the mean time. Here is a minimal version of what I'm trying to fix:

\version "2.16.2"

\relative e' {

\aikenHeads

\key d \major

< e a >2\fermata

}

On Mac Lilypond 2.16 that E comes out a quarter note. To override the note head, I'm thinking notehead.s0re is the one I want (from this list). I've been trying to sort it out myself, but is still new to me. I'm thinking of using \tweak #'glyph-name = , but I'm apparently not putting the string value in correctly. I was hoping to find out the proper format for a string from the 4.2.3 Types of Properties chart, but I don't see strings on that list. So maybe my problem is just not putting the string in correctly. I've done some hunting, and I think I found some examples that do it this way: #"string". Is that right?

Any solution would be appreciated, whether a bit of code to automatically fix \aikenHeads 2nd interval half note in each instance, or whether just a \tweak that I can put in manually each time. So far, it's not but one or two instances in each piece, which I could manage without it being automatic. Any additional learning about entering string values in \override and \tweak would also be helpful.

-Garrett