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Vaticana ligature uses four staff lines, special clef, and calligraphic notes.

For TrillSpanner, the minimum-length property becomes effective only if the set-spacing-rods procedure is called explicitly.

To do this, the springs-and-rods property should be set to ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods.

An extra staff can be added (possibly temporarily) after the start of a piece.

Frets are supported as markup commands.

By overriding bound-details, you can insert an accidental after the trill sign in a trillspanner. However, this can look ugly since the accidental isn't aligned. With a few tweaks to the script size and position, you can achieve quite pleasing results.

When you put a long \markup text in a \mark object, LilyPond stretches the measure to encompass the complete markup. This can be avoided by overriding the 'X-extent property of the RehearsalMark object, as demonstrated in this snippet.

Divisiones are gregorian variants of breathing signs. Choices are divisioMinima, divisioMaior, divisioMaxima and finalis, virgula and caesura.

In an orchestral score (Beethoven's Coriolan overture), there are different instrument groups, and some of the instruments may be transposed. Instruments are indicated either with a long or short name.

This snippet shows how to create fret diagrams with chord names but no staff/staves, for a fret diagram which is not one of the predefined fretboard diagrams i.e. with the fret diagrams specified using fret diagram markup.

The first example in the "Fret diagram markups" section of the "Notation Reference" (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/6f/lily-b213fdb4.ly) is defined using fret diagram markup, so I have used that example as the basis for this snippet. Hence, this is also an example of how to remove the staff (and all things in the staff) from the first example in the "Fret diagram markups" section of the "Notation reference".

For more info, please see:

• http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings#predefined-fret-diagrams ("It is common that both chord names and fret diagrams are displayed together.") and
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-11/msg00080.html

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