Re: Tweaked cross-staff glissando

[Antti Kaihola]

on 2004-09-23 at 18:37 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> One solution is to make the glissando to an invisible note
> just before the bar line. The Glissando object also has a
> property called gap, but that applies to both ends of the line.

I couldn't get close enough to the bar line with this method. Eventually
I used raw PostScript code (scary...) to get exactly what I want.

Separately adjustable gaps for both ends of glissandi and other line and
slur objects would be great, though.


> Antti Kaihola wrote:
> > On a piano staff, I need a glissando line from a quarter note on last
> > beat of the upper staff to a note on the first beat of the lower staff:
> > 
> > \context PianoStaff <<
> >     \context Staff=upper {
> >     r2. c''4 \glissando \change Staff = lower d4 r2.
> >     }
> >     \context Staff=lower {
> >     }
> > 
> > However, I'd like to glissando line to end horizontally just before the
> > barline so one doesn't get the impression that the last notes of the
> > glissando are after the first beat.
> > 
> > Is there an easier way to achieve this than to insert additonal spacing
> > and move the barline?