Slide to/from nowhere

[colin kirkham]

Hi,

I have been trying to find the best way to notate a slide that has no relationship to another note. Reading through the archive there appears so be some discussion on the subject but nothing definitive.

I have tried two approaches, hidden notes and postscript markup. Hidden notes gives the best appearance and doesn't need to be changed dependent on the note and bar placement, but has a distinct disadvantage in that the hidden note still counts. The postscript markup is really fiddly however and needs tweaking every time (at least the way I have done it!).

Is it possible to create a second voice that has the glissando and two hidden notes (pre and post) and just overlay that on a single bar rather than needing to enter loads of rests for the full length of the piece otherwise?

Any other suggestions that people have would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

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