LilyPond supports a number of pre-defined clefs, all of which show the clef symbol on some staff line. If you need the clef symbol between two lines, say, you can either manually set Staff.clefGlyph
, Staff.clefPosition
, and Staff.middleCPosition
to the appropriate values, or you can add your own clef definition so that you can use \clef myCustomClef
, for example. This can be achieved by using the add-new-clef
function which has the form:
(add-new-clef "myCustomClef" "clefs.GLYPH" clef-position octavation c0-position)
The parameters are as follows.
"myCustomClef"
is the name of the new clef.
"clefs.GLYPH"
describes the actual clef glyph (e.g., "clefs.g" for the treble clef, "clefs.neomensural.c" for the neomensural c glyph, etc.).
clef-position
determines the position of the clef, counted from the center line of the staff. For example, a value of 1 means the clef is shown between the center line and the line above, 4 means the clef is shown on the top line, -2 means it is shown on the second line of the staff.
octavation
describes the octave transposition, which is typically 0.
c0-position
determines the position of middle C on the staff relative to clef-position
. For example, a value of -2 means middle C will be two staff positions (lines or spaces) below clef-position
.