Re: Adding performance notes (text) to score?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Is there a way to add performance notes in lilypond?  
> I want to add two or three lines of text below the staff 
> at a certain point or create footnotes at the bottom of the
> page.

I recommend to take a look at lilypond-book, using LaTeX for the
text typesetting, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Integrating-LaTeX-and-music.html

> As an aside, how can I produce a jagged line along the staff?
> This is typically used as a way to indicate a fingernail scraping
> across a guitar string.  I put in a \glissando with a \markup 
> indicating what I wanted but would prefer the jagged line if possible.

Do you means something like what's shown at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Running-trills.html
but without the "tr"?
Then you can use a Text Spanner, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-spanners.html
and set
\override TextSpanner #'style = #'trill

  /Mats