Hello Lukas-Fabian, Thanks, didnt’ think of the good old empty chord trick!
JM > Le 2 févr. 2022 à 13:36, Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> a écrit : > > Hi Jacques, > >> Is there a more natural way of obtaining this result than with a sequence of >> shorter and shorter skips? > > The following seems to work here: > > \version "2.23.5" > > \relative c''' { > \time 6/8 > << > { > g8 ^\markup {\italic "rit." } g4 g8 > g4 | % 16 > c8 [ bes8 ( g8 ) > e8 ( c8 ) bes8 _\laissezVibrer ] > } > { > \once\override TextSpanner.style = #'trill % wave zigzag > \once\override TextSpanner.minimum-length = #8 > \once\override TextSpanner.Y-offset = #-4 > \once\override TextSpanner.springs-and-rods = > #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods > { <> \startTextSpan s2.*2 <> \stopTextSpan } > } > >> > > } > > If you want the stopTextSpan to happen before the next bar starts, feel free > to replace *2 in s2.*2 by a fraction slightly less than 2, for example 127/64. > > In general, I never liked the technique of attaching events that occur at the > start of a timestep to spacer rests, and I already changed this in the > documentation at some points I think: To me, > > s2\f s2\> s1\p > > always reads as "before skipping 2, put a \f; then, before skipping another > 2, start a diminuendo; then, before skipping a 1, put a \p" which feels like > mental roller coaster. It seems much more natural to do > > <>\f s2 <>\> s2 <>\p > > allowing us to read in the natural order: put a \f, then skip 2, then start a > diminuendo, etc. > > And of course, with recent development versions, you can even do > > <>\f \after 2 \> \after 1 \p s1*2 > > or something like that. > > Lukas >