Re: laying out plainsong chant

[Trevor Daniels]

Noeck wrote Monday, October 21, 2013 6:50 PM

> I still think there should be some Lilypond built-in functionality for
> that, because I do not like the misuse of rests for that. Perhaps, there
> will be some time in half a year from now when I could look into this
> further. For now, this seems to solve the question reasonably well
> concerning the printed output.

Have you explored clustered notes?  Although not intended for this
purpose it may be possible to adapt them.  Use single notes
rather than chords.  

See 
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/single-voice#clusters

Trevor