Re: Generating a spiccato

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> In MusixXML, this sign is <spiccato/> (The <spiccato/> element |
>> MusicXML 4.0 (w3.org)
>> <https://www.w3.org/2021/06/musicxml40/musicxml-reference/elements/spiccato/>),
>> the same sign is named \staccatissimo in Lilypond.
>> In MusixXML, <staccatissimo/> looks like this:  (The <staccatissimo>
>> element | MusicXML 4.0 (w3.org)
>> <https://www.w3.org/2021/06/musicxml40/musicxml-reference/elements/staccatissimo/>),
>> but it seems there is no corresponding articulation in Lilypond and no
>> glyph in the Emmentaler font.
>>
>> So the question is: is there interest among the LilyPond community to
>> add the latter glyph in some way?

I consider the distinction between these two glyphs completely
arbitrary.  At normal size, the difference between a concave and a
convex top is not really visible.

If you look at

  https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/articulation.html

you can see that both glyph shapes in question are defined as variants
of 'staccatissimo' – for spiccato, there doesn't exist a symbol.  And
rightly so: I've never seen a symbol for spiccato except an ordinary
staccato point with the word 'spicc.' (if at all).


     Werner