Re: Slide to/from nowhere

[Brett Duncan]

colin kirkham wrote:
> 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,

You certainly could do what you want with a second voice and hidden 
notes, something like

    << {c1} \\ { \hideNotes c2.\glissando c'4 \unHideNotes } >>


OTOH, you can do without the second voice by hiding one note but also 
adjusting the durations:

    c1*63/64\glissando \hideNotes c'64 \unHideNotes


HTH,
Brett Duncan