Drawing wavy line across the bars

2017-04-01 Thread Dmitry
Hi, Attached is an excerpt from the famous jazz arrangement book by Georgy Garanian. (In fact, I can't name any other jazz arrangement book in Russian that would be that profound and complete; needless to say, the terminology and notation introduced in the book is widely accepted here in Russia.

Re: Drawing wavy line across the bars

2017-04-01 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Dimitry \version "2.19.58" { c''4 ^\markup { \draw-squiggle-line #1.2 #'(20 . 0) ##t } } NR Section A.11.3. No custom engraver required. As to text with whiteout, I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader to look up in the NR also - I'm sure you can find that. Andrew _

Re: Drawing wavy line across the bars

2017-04-01 Thread Andrew Bernard
H Dimitry, If you want the wave in the staff, you can use extra-offset: \version "2.19.58" { \override TextScript.extra-offset = #'(0 . -3) c''4 ^\markup { \draw-squiggle-line #1.2 #'(20 . 0) ##t } } Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: Drawing wavy line across the bars

2017-04-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 02.04.2017 um 05:56 schrieb Andrew Bernard: \version "2.19.58" { c''4 ^\markup { \draw-squiggle-line #1.2 #'(20 . 0) ##t } } NR Section A.11.3. No custom engraver required. Well, it’s a start. It could also be made easier accessible using a music function, but still the extents will

Re: Drawing wavy line across the bars

2017-04-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Simon, Of course, yes, but overkill surely. Let's see what the OP really wants. Not hard to do this manually for a typical jazz piece. Andrew On 2 April 2017 at 23:18, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > Well, it’s a start. It could also be made easier accessible using a music > function, but still

Re: Drawing wavy line across the bars

2017-04-03 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
-- Forwarded message -- ... What I'm interested in is that wavy line that comes across the bars (or sometimes between the staves), usually preceded by some text with a \whiteout-like effect. The meaning of this symbol is, "play exactly what other instrument plays". How can I reprod

Re: Drawing wavy line across the bars

2017-04-07 Thread Dmitry
Andrew, thanks a lot for the snippet! As a quick workaround, it works like charm (see below for more general thoughts). As for the "exercise", here we go: \version "2.19.58" { \override TextScript.extra-offset = #'(0 . -3.2)  s1 ^\markup { \general-align #Y #CENTER \whiteout Foo \override #'(height