Re: Changing fingers while holding key down

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2021-10-21 at 08:59 -0700, Knute Snortum wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> In piano music, there's a technique for holding down a key with one
> finger, then switching to another. 

I see that Denemo emits

c \finger \markup \tied-lyric #" 1~2  "

for this...

Richard

>  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