3.15.5 Ancient flags

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

     \override Stem #'flag-style = #'mensural
     \override Stem #'thickness = #1.0
     \override NoteHead #'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

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

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

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