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Breath marks

Breath marks are entered using \breathe:

     
     c2. \breathe d4

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Musical indicators for breath marks in ancient notation, divisiones, are supported. For details, see Divisiones.

Selected Snippets

Changing the breath mark symbol

The glyph of the breath mark can be tuned by overriding the text property of the BreathingSign layout object with any markup text.

     
     \relative c'' {
       c2
       \override BreathingSign #'text = \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.rvarcomma" }
       \breathe
       d2
     }

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Inserting a caesura

Caesura marks can be created by overriding the 'text property of the BreathingSign object. A curved caesura mark is also available.

     
     \relative c'' {
       \override BreathingSign #'text =
         #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.caesura.straight")
       c8 e4. \breathe g8. e16 c4
     
       \override BreathingSign #'text =
         #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.caesura.curved")
       g8 e'4. \breathe g8. e16 c4
     }

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See also

Notation Reference: Divisiones.

Snippets: Expressive marks.

Internals Reference: BreathingSign.

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