Re: artificial harmonics notation

[Mats Bengtsson]

As you have noticed, \harmonic only works within a chord. I'm not sure why
the program is designed this way, since it's perfectly valid notation 
practice to
notate a harmonic with a single diamond shaped note head, i.e. with only 
a single
note in the chord. You have exactly the same problems with fingerings if 
you want
to specify a fingering to the left or right of a note head, then
    \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
    c'-3
doesn't work, whereas
    \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
    <c'-3>
gives the desired output. This may seem to be completely unrelated but 
it turns
out that the same engraver handles both fingerings and harmonics in the 
current
implementation.

I can easily add a few lines to the manual, clarifying that \harmonic 
only works
within a chord, but I think that it would be better to fix the 
implementation.

  /Mats

Jon Alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It happens that, when I wnat to write an harmonic pitch, 
> it doesn't work just with:
>
> a4\harmonic
>
> Instead, if I write it as an "one-note chord":
>
> <a4\harmonic>
>
> It works. Is the program suposed to work like that? 
> I'm a 2.6.0 version user.
> Perhaps you fixed it in later versions.
>
>
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