The actual diamond notehead is a bit oblong and didn’t center on the stem. It occurred to me that I might be able to fake the symbols using a diamond notehead placed on the stem at the desired position.
The second custom stem I needed is a diamond shape that the composer uses to signify a certain type of “half-harmonic“ playing style for strings. The tremolo symbol is note-attached and could theoretically also be replaced in the same manner but I needed to use it elsewhere in this particular score. That was a great start and a big help, but didn’t really offer an option for the second type of stem. Now whenever you need that stem, you can just select the 6 on the third keypad and your new symbol will cross the stem and stay attached to and move with the note. My new slightly smaller text style for the “s“. Depending on the exact symbol you need, you may need to experiment with the symbol positioning to make sure it is where you want it for both up and down stems. I found it useful to copy the ‘1st and 2nd endings’ text style and make the font size a little bit smaller. This came from the ‘1st and 2nd endings’ symbol set. In the symbols edit window I simply replaced the “z” (which I wouldn’t need for this score) with an “s”.
Turning to the Sibelius forum, I found a post by user Jeremy Hughes suggesting replacing the “z” (buzz roll) symbol on the keypad to achieve a note-attached stem symbol. Here is a sample from the original manuscript: The first type of stem basically has an “s” through it to signify a kind of exaggerated pitch fluctuation/vibrato.
#Sibelius flip stem plus
Plus the particular symbols I needed for this piece were not available. If there a lot of them in use, each one needs to be manually placed and, should anything change in the formatting, they easily slide around and need to constantly be checked. While Sibelius does offer a set of custom stems as symbols, the fact that these can not be attached to notes makes it difficult to work with them in practice. While working on a recent project I was faced with the challenge of recreating two varieties of custom stems.
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