Issue 2377 in lilypond: Enhancement: ancient cross-shaped ornament (prall)

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New issue 2377 by address@hidden: Enhancement: ancient cross-shaped  
ornament (prall)
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2377

(I'm adding this directly to the tracker to save the Bug Squad a couple of  
minutes.)

French users have been asking for an ornament that's found in some ancient  
scores; for example you may have a look at this original edition of a  
motetus by Campra:
http://lilypond-french-users.1298960.n2.nabble.com/file/n7336117/camprap84.pdf

As you can see on the first staff, some notes are preceded with a small  
cross, that is _not_ an accidental, but actually some sort of a prall.  
(Evidence also suggests it should ideally not collide with staff lines.)

I think Lily already has the appropriate glyph; what we do lack, however,  
is a suitable way of placing a sign _inside_ the staff, before the note,  
that is NOT an accidental. The only workaround I came up with is a hack  
around a Fingering object:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user-fr/2012-03/msg00002.html

Hopefully there's a simple way of supporting that. (But we may regard it as  
very low-priority.)