Re: Generating a spiccato

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Werner,

Thanks for the clarification!

JM

> Le 13 juil. 2022 à 16:40, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> a écrit :
> 
> 
>>> 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