+\version "2.11.51"
\header{
-texidoc="
-Breathing signs, also used for phrasing, do normally not influence
-global spacing -- only if space gets tight, notes are shifted to make
-room for the breathing sign. Breathing signs break beams running
-through their voice. In the following example, the notes in the first
-two measures all have the same distance from each other:
-";
+ texidoc="
+Breathing signs are available in different tastes: commas (default),
+ticks, vees and `railroad tracks' (caesura)."
}
-\version "1.3.117";
+{
+ %% Modern notation:
+ \new Staff {
+ \relative c'' {
+ %% by default, \breathe uses the rcomma, just as if saying:
+ %% \override BreathingSign #'text =
+ %% #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.rcomma")
+ %%
+ c4 c \breathe c c |
-\score {
- \notes \relative c' {
- \key es \major; \time 3/4;
- < \context Voice = two { \stemDown es4 bes es }
- \context Voice = one { \stemUp g4 as g }
- > |
- < \context Voice = two { \stemDown es4 \breathe bes es }
- \context Voice = one { \stemUp g4 as g }
- > |
- es8 d es f g4 \breathe |
- es8 d \breathe es f g f |
- es2 r4 \bar "||";
+ %% rvarcomma and lvarcomma are variations of the default rcomma
+ %% and lcomma
+ %%
+ \override Staff.BreathingSign #'text =
+ #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.rvarcomma")
+ c4 c \breathe c c |
+
+ %% wedge
+ %%
+ \override BreathingSign #'text =
+ #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.upbow")
+ c4 c \breathe c c |
+
+ %% caesurae
+ %%
+ \override BreathingSign #'text =
+ #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.caesura.curved")
+ c4 c \breathe c c |
+
+ \override BreathingSign #'text =
+ #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.caesura.straight")
+ c4 c \breathe c c |
+ }
}
}