Re: How to lengthen the arpeggio...

[Mats Bengtsson]

Also, I hope you have seen in the Arpeggio examples of
http://lilypond.org/stable/input/regression/out-www/regression.html
how to get arpeggios that connects several staves.

   /Mats

> Minh A. Hoang wrote:
> 
> >...so that the arpeggio grob would cover the whole staff vertically
> >(and over the other voices as well).
> >
> 
> You might be able to do something like this, which adds invisible notes
> that are spanned by the arpeggio:
> 
> blanknotes = { \property Thread.NoteHead  \override #'transparent  = ##t
>            \property Thread.Stem  \override #'transparent = ##t }
> 
> \score {
>     \notes \relative c' \context Voice {
>     <b \arpeggio \context Thread = bl { \blanknotes <e g c e a> } >
>     }
> }
> 
> The stem length also needs shortening here, but you get the general idea.
> 
> -- 
> chris