Re: Howto do these things with lily?

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, 23 May 2003 04:02:00 +0200
Atte Andr Jensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2) Is there a clean way to make "ring out ties" that is ties that are
> only connected to note(s) in one end (the left). This indicates more
> loosely that the notes should be held for some indefinate amount of
> time... I could of course tie to transparent notes, but are there other,
> better ways?

I tie to transparent notes.  It's not too "dirty", especially once you
define \inv and \unv (uninvisible) macros.

I could dig up the code if you want.

> 3) Is there a way to notate shifted rhythms, something like (here he
> goes again with his crappy ASCII-"art"):
> 
> I basically need it with faster and more complicated rhythms but if the
> above is possible, I guess I should be able to work that out. A lot of
> transparency + extra voice (s) + extra-offset could hack it, but I'd
> really, really rather not...

What about using spacer notes?

< {s8 e4 e} \\  {c4 c c8} >

Cheers,
- Graham