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Coloring elements of notation

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Revision as of 18:45, 16 November 2025 by Jean Abou Samra (talk | contribs) (Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series)

Individual objects may be assigned colors. Several pre-defined colors are available; they are exhaustively listed in the Notation Reference.

\version "2.24"

%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=419

\relative c'' {
  \override NoteHead.color = #red
  c4 c
  \override NoteHead.color = #(x11-color 'LimeGreen)
  d
  \override Stem.color = #blue
  e
}