re: Where is there a "z" or "s" quarter rest?

[David Raleigh Arnold]

tisimst <tisimst.lilypond <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> All,
> 
> I couldn't wait any longer, so here's a formal announcement about the new
> music fonts that I've been working on, by way of example. They are all 100%
> LilyPond compatible

Please, a z-s rest? It's newer than the Gutenberg quarter rests you have in
all of the fonts, and it has its advocates. It's especially good for complex
guitar music, because it takes less vertical space.

I call your present quarter a Gutenberg rest because it is a blackletter
"R", and used in printing as well as writing because the fonts and the
blackletter writing style developed together in Gutenberg's day. Of course
the "R" was joined to a straight-sided letter on its left when writing, but
the same form was printed next to a straight sided letter without connection.

The z-s rest looks like a backwards "z". It was an improvement on the
"classical" rest, because it did not cause frequent mistakes.

Regards, Rale