[smufl-discuss] Re: Whole/Half-barrest with attached staffline-section

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[smufl-discuss] Re: Whole/Half-barrest with attached staffline-section

dspreadbury
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Christof wrote:

> whole/half bar-rest-symbols with attached
> staffline-section are handy when the rests have
> to be displayed without barlines.
>
> The attached staffline-portion is the only way
> to make this black rectange appear as a rest
> and of course to distinguish between half and whole.
>
> I would propose to add those two symbols (as "free"
> or "staffless" alternatives).

I don't think scoring applications will have need of these glyphs, since
they can generally speaking construct leger lines with no difficulties,
but I can see that for text-based applications this might be useful. I
will add these two proposed glyphs to the 'Rests' range in the next
revision.

Daniel

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