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#5187 Enhancement: Add command for 'Thin' Aikenheads

Fixed
Enhancement
2017-09-30
2017-09-09
No

Back in June, I was typing up some Aiken-heads music for a client. We
ran into a problem shown in the attached PNG and LY files, where
white-head notes end up too dark at lower staff sizes. The problem was
resolved by using thin-variant Aiken heads. However, arriving at that
solution was a little challenging. With web searches, I was able to find
that the thin-variant note heads existed, but not how to access them. A
post to lilypond-user got good help from Abraham Lee.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-06/msg00137.html

The solution was:

aikenHeadsThin = \set shapeNoteStyles = ##(doThin reThin miThin faThin
sol laThin tiThin)

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Discussion

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2017-09-09

    From: Carl Sorensen

    As much as I hate to have commands expand, I think given all of the other
    shape note commands, we should probably go ahead and add a command
    \aikenThinHeads (rather than \aikenHeadsThin -- all of the others end
    with Heads) and \aikenThinHeadsMinor.

    Thanks,

    Carl

     
    • Simon Albrecht

      Simon Albrecht - 2017-09-09

      I second that.

       
  • Karlin High

    Karlin High - 2017-09-30

    Issue 5198 added the \aikenThinHeads commands. That one has been fixed and closed; doing the same here.

     
  • Karlin High

    Karlin High - 2017-09-30
    • status: New --> Fixed
    • assigned_to: Karlin High
     
  • Karlin High

    Karlin High - 2017-09-30
    • labels: --> Fixed_2_21_0