Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

[David Nalesnik]

Hi Nick,

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nick Payne <address@hidden> wrote:

[...]

>
> Thanks, that's very useful. I added three functions to your code which which
> take just the slope as parameter and default to using either hyphen, en
> dash, and em dash, to cater for different degrees of tightness of note
> spacing:
>

[...]

> I also tried two-em and three-em dashes (unicode values 0x2E3A and 0x2E3B,
> see http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf), but they're not in the
> emmentaler font; when I put them in a function the console spits out:
>
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument
> continuing, cross fingers
> programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming.
> Skipping glyph U+10002E3A, file
> /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf
>

Unfortunately, I'm not sure at the moment how to get the function to
work with those characters.  However, if you're interested simply in
drawing lines, then there will be greater flexibility with a line
stencil, rather than em- and en-dashes and such.  I've adapted the
function to do just that (see attached).  It allows customization of
slope and the length of the guide-line.

HTH,
David

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