In traumerei of Schumann, http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/schumann/traeum.pdf there \varline is used for making sloped hairpins, they are obsolete now if using postscript hairpins:
% #1= origine #2= lungnezza #3= altezza linea inferiore #4= altezza linea superiore % #1= oorsprong #2= lengte #3= stijging onderste lijn #4= stijging bovenste lijn \def\slopecresc#1#2#3#4{\rlap{\varline{#1}{#2\noteskip}{#3}}% \rlap{\varline{#1}{#2\noteskip}{#4}}}% % Andre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Pierre Coulon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Werner Icking Music Archive" <tex-music@icking-music-archive.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:13 AM Subject: [TeX-Music] \varline > Page 67 of Don's last version of the MusiXTeX documention says that: > > \varline ... could be used ... to construct various obscure baroque > ornaments... > > It seems the slope of \varline is somewhat limited, in the same way as a > beam > slope, and this limits the possibilities of ornaments you can draw. > > Has anybody examples of nice ornaments made with \varline? > > Regards, > > > Jean-Pierre Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music