Typesetting "as near to Petrucci style as possible".

[Richard Shann]

Recently someone asked on denemo-devel about typesetting "as near to
Petrucci style as possible".
It so happened that I was just then transcribing a sonata by Rebel so I
tried out the suggestions in 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/typesetting-mensural-music

and I came up with a first attempt (attached) by adding a few lines like
the ones in this MWE:

\version "2.19.43" 
 
 {
        \clef mensural-g
        \set Staff.clefPosition = #-4
        \set Staff.middleCPosition = #-8
        \set Staff.middleCClefPosition = #-8
        \override Flag.style = #'mensural
        \override NoteHead.style = #'petrucci
        \override Rest.style = #'neomensural
        \key g \major    \time 6/4
        R1*6/4 c''2. r2.
 }

There are two problems - the R1*6/4 typesets as a classical whole bar
rest and there is a dot on the r2. rest (I think rests didn't get dots
at this time - the Rebel has none, which does make r2 and r2. ambiguous,
saved only by the context).

I'm guessing the second of these problems will require a fiddly
workaround (which I can do), but am I missing something obvious about
the whole bar rest?

Richard

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