1 #(ly:set-option 'old-relative)
5 Breathing signs, also used for phrasing, do normally not influence
6 global spacing -- only if space gets tight, notes are shifted to make
7 room for the breathing sign. Breathing signs break beams running
8 through their voice. In the following example, the notes in the first
9 two measures all have the same distance from each other.
11 Breathing signs are available in different tastes: commas (default),
12 ticks, vees and `railroad tracks' (caesura).
14 Gregorian chant notation sometimes also uses commas and ticks, but in
15 smaller font size (we call it 'virgula' and 'caesura'). However, the
16 most common breathing signs are divisio minima/maior/maxima and
17 finalis, the latter three looking similar to bar glyphs.
21 \include "gregorian-init.ly"
30 \notes \relative c'' {
31 \key es \major \time 3/4
33 % this bar contains no \breathe
39 % by default, \breathe uses the rcomma, just as if saying:
40 % \property Voice.BreathingSign \set #'text =
41 % #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts-rcomma")
44 { es4 \breathe bes es }
47 % rvarcomma and lvarcomma are variations of the default rcomma
50 % N.B.: must use Staff context here, since we start a Voice below
51 \property Staff.BreathingSign \set #'text =
52 #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts-rvarcomma")
55 { es4 \breathe bes es }
59 \property Voice.BreathingSign \set #'text =
60 #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts-upbow")
61 es8 d es f g8 \breathe f |
64 \property Voice.BreathingSign \set #'text =
65 #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts-caesura")
66 es8[ d] \breathe es[ f g f] |
67 es2 r4 \bar "||" \break
74 \context VaticanaStaff {
77 % we turn bars and bar numbers off for Gregorian stuff
78 \property Staff.BarLine \set #'transparent = ##t
79 \property Score.BarNumber \set #'transparent = ##t
84 % \virgula applies rcomma, but in a smaller font
87 % \caesura applies rvarcomma, but in a smaller font
90 % \divisioMinima is a simple vertical stroke through the
91 % uppermost staffline, just like the original implementation
95 % \divisio{maior,maxima} and \finalis look like bars and are
96 % vertically centered on the staff; the direction property has
101 % this one looks almost like a "||" type bar
107 \translator { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext }