On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote: > A web search shows \bendBefore is not implemented. I have tried some > snippets found out there but failed to get the bends (using LilyJAZZ if that > matters). > > I need the bend to indicate how to attack certain notes in saxophone scores. > > Does anybody have a modern snippet to share?
If you'll bear with me here, I find \bendAfter to be rather ugly and not at all like the slides I've seen in jazz lead sheets. (For one, it stops where the next note starts, usually creating a curve that's too long or too short on the horizontal axis.) I prefer a different approach to bends, which looks nicer and is also easily extensible to something like a \bendBefore. Anyways, something like the following has served me well: #(define (scoop-stencil grob) (ly:stencil-add (ly:note-head::print grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:with-dimensions '(0 . 0) '(0 . 0) #:translate '(-0.2 . -0.5) #:path 0.25 '((moveto 0 0) (curveto 0 -1 -1 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5)))))) scoop = \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #scoop-stencil \new Staff { \scoop c''4 } The bend has fixed size and position. That's usually good enough for me, but if you require many bends of different sizes, this should be adapted into a music function. (SMuFL has a bunch of nice pre-built bend glyphs; you can also use those if you wish.) Regards, Nathan _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user