Re: Changing fingers while holding key down

[Silvain Dupertuis]

There a Unicode diacritic for this, the ligature tie

It does not necesserily gives good result, depending on the font

character U+0361   ͡ COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE

1͡2 ok with DejaVu Sans (but tie sign a bit too close)

Would this be a possibility?

Apparently, this ligature tie does not exist in LaTeX

Silvain

Le 21.10.21 à 17:59, Knute Snortum a écrit :

> Hi everyone,
>
> In piano music, there's a technique for holding down a key with one
> finger, then switching to another.  I know how this looks in music
> notation (see attached) but I don't know how to engrave it with
> LilyPond.  I've searched the docs, the LSR, and the internet for the
> answer, but I don't know any technical term for this (is there one?)
> so the results were less than helpful.
>
> How is this done in LilyPond?  I'm assuming one uses markup with
> \finger, but I can't find a way to make the "slur" on top of the
> numbers.  (I've seen this notated with the slur under the numbers
> too.)
>
> --
> Knute Snortum
>

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