Re: aleatoric squiggles

[address@hidden]

On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:16 PM, James Harkins wrote:

> At Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:21:01 +0200,
> address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>> Karim Barkati <address@hidden> is currently typesetting a score not unlike 
>> this for viola & electronics.  I'm ccing him to this e-mail: his approach 
>> also uses glissandi and looks really nice.
>> 
>> For the arrow:
>> \relative c' {\override Glissando #'bound-details #'right #'arrow = ##t c1 
>> \glissando s1 c1 }
>> 
>> For the cuing, if the glissando is always gonna be flat, try:
>> 
>> \relative c' {
>> \override Glissando #'bound-details #'right #'padding = #0
>> \override Glissando #'bound-details #'left #'padding = #0
>> f4 \glissando
>> \override Voice . NoteHead #'stencil = #(ly:make-stencil '() '(0 . 0) '(0 . 
>> 0))
>> \override Voice . Stem #'stencil = ##f
>> \repeat unfold 22 { f4 \glissando }
>> \revert Voice . NoteHead #'stencil
>> f4
>> }
> 
> Not bad, though the glisses don't always join exactly. I won't be too fussy 
> at this stage.
> 

That's odd...they should.  Could you send an example of them not joining up?

Cheers,
MS