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Ancient flags

Syntax

Use the flag-style property of grob Stem to select ancient flags. Besides the default flag style, only mensural style is supported:

       \property Voice.Stem \set #'flag-style = #'mensural
       \property Voice.Stem \set #'thickness = #1.0
       \property Voice.NoteHead \set #'style = #'mensural
       \autoBeamOff
       c'8 d'8 e'8 f'8 c'16 d'16 e'16 f'16 c'32 d'32 e'32 f'32 s8
       c''8 d''8 e''8 f''8 c''16 d''16 e''16 f''16 c''32 d''32 e''32 f''32
     

[picture of music]

Note that the innermost flare of each mensural flag always is vertically aligned with a staff line. If you do not like this behaviour, you can set the adjust-if-on-staffline property of grob Stem to ##f. Then, the vertical position of the end of each flare is different between notes on staff lines and notes between staff lines:

[picture of music]

There is no particular flag style for neo-mensural notation. Hence, when typesetting e.g. the incipit of a transcibed piece of mensural music, the default flag style should be used. There are no flags in Gregorian Chant notation.


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