Re: extenders in figured bass without a figure in front

[James]

Hello,

On 25 December 2011 16:43, C.Flothow <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hej!
> in a piece which I've been transscribing there is repeatedly an extender
> line in the figured bass without a number in front. This means of course:
> hold the accord.
> I've tried to indicate this with a markup, but that's of course not the
> same.
>
> % --------------------------------------------------------------
> \version "2.14.0"
>
> {\key g \major \clef bass
>    d d'_\markup{------} c'
> }
> % --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Is there a way for producing a "real" extender line here? I've not found how
> to do that in the docs. Have I missed something?

Yes ;)

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/snippets/expressive-marks#changing-text-and-spanner-styles-for-text-dynamics

Use

\override DynamicTextSpanner #'style = #'line

instead

Hope this helps.
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James