Hi Harm, thank you very much! This indeed is helping me to achieve what I'm right now needing (see attached example).
For now I needed quite some manual tweaking of the right hand lenghts, and if I'll need something like this more, I'd probably try to wrap it in a way that a voice will have that attached to all notes automatically. But I won't touch it anymore until tomorrow evening. Best Urs Am Montag, den 22.06.2020, 22:58 +0200 schrieb Thomas Morley: > Am Mo., 22. Juni 2020 um 11:46 Uhr schrieb Urs Liska < > li...@openlilylib.org>: > > I really don't seem to find useful search terms :-( > > > > I'm trying to achieve horizontal lines "extending" the note head to > > indicate its duration. The attachement is done by abusing > > \glissando. > > I'd be (mostly) happy with the appearance, but glissandi work only > > in > > place where a tie is. When there's a different note or a rest after > > the > > original note it doesn't. > > > > What would be a term for this notation element, and is there a > > ready- > > made solution, e.g. in the LSR? > > > > Thanks > > Urs > > Hi Urs, > > how about attached? > There are some features I needed for typesetting some avantgarde > piece, not sure whether they are of use for your case, though. > There are two functions defined durLine and durationLine, both have > pros and cons ... > > Cheers, > Harm