Re: Slide in guitar music (Sorry -- wrong keys :-/)

[anders . vinjar]

Hi Guy.

    G> What I want is for the slide symbol to be much longer, about the
    G> distance from one eighth note to another so that it is quite
    G> visible and obvious that the slide is audible and deliberate and
    G> not, really, a typical \grace (which I'm using here not knowing
    G> another way to do this).

Here's one way:

{
 e'8 g' b' e'' e' g' b' e'' |

 \once\override Glissando #'minimum-length = #6
 \once\override Glissando #'springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods 
 \grace{ e'8 \glissando } fis'8 _\markup { \italic { Rubato } } 

 g' b' e'' fis' g' b' e'' |
}

-anders