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Harmonic noteheads in a chord

…you have a lot of chords including harmonic noteheads, typing \tweak style #'harmonic-mixed may be to …

Making noteheads look handwritten

…fun, here's a way of making hand-written noteheads in LilyPond. Points on a markup path are …

Aiken head thin variant noteheads

…c''2 a' c' a % Switch to thin-variant noteheads \set shapeNoteStyles = ##(doThin reThin miThin faThin sol …

…for a stem pointing down. % (Per default, additional NoteHeads may have been placed on the opposite side … …stem-x-corr))) displaceHeads = #(define-music-function (offsets) (list?) " Moves the NoteHeads, using (shift offsets) " #{ \once \override NoteColumn.before-line-breaking = … …parent from the NoteColumn could be chosen. The NoteHeads are numbered 1 2 3 ... not 0 1 …

…inside a full measure or multi-measure rest, only noteheads with a minimum size trigger the removal of …

…apply define-grob-property x)) `((size-threshold-to-remove-mm-rest-rumber ,number? "The minimum size noteheads need to trigger the removal of multi measure …

…#'(1.78 . 0) \hspace #-.21 \musicglyph "noteheads.s2" \hspace #-.25 } #})) ((= pos -7) (grob-interpret-markup … …#'(1.78 . 0) \hspace #-.21 \musicglyph "noteheads.s2" \hspace #-.25 } #})) (else (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup \concat { \hspace #-.21 \musicglyph "noteheads.s2" \hspace #-.25 } #}))))) \override Accidental.extra-offset = …

…chord—that is, the stem with all its noteheads, ledger lines, augmentation dots and beams. Note that … …will only work when the notehead collides with noteheads in other voices, and has no effect in …

…to any grob in your score, such as NoteHeads, Alterations, Beams and so on, by simply overriding …

…c'' { % disable the following line to see the noteheads while writing the song \NoNoteHead \override NoteHead.no-ledgers = …

…direction)) (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:center-align #:fontsize -4 #:musicglyph "noteheads.s2cross")) -2.3)))) } speakOff = { \revert Stem.stencil \revert …