Re: How to create measure with only slashes

[Nathan Ho]

On 2017-01-19 18:19, Rob Torop wrote:
> I'd    like to create a measure that has 4 forward slashes in it
> (only). This does almost what I want except of course it has the rest
> at the start:
>
>       \repeat percent 4 { r4 }
>
> Is there a way to get just 4 slashes?

Hi Rob,

Here's how I do it:

{
  \override Rest #'stencil = 
#ly:percent-repeat-item-interface::beat-slash
  \override Rest #'thickness = #0.48
  \override Rest #'slope = #1.7
  \repeat unfold 16 { r4 }
}


Nathan