Re: Extended trill (long squiggly line)

[Chris Jackson]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:15:35PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> >   I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to typeset an extended trill
> > mark (usually drawn as a long squiggly line, I believe) using Lilypond.  I
> > have a "Tr", but in order to indicate the duration right now I'd have to put
> > in a bunch of tied notes or something; I'd rather have the squiggles. :)
> 
> There is no support for extended trills (yet)

I have done this sort of thing hackily using a dotted line instead of
a squiggle, like so:

<{\grace {[a16 ( b]} a1^\trill ~a}  \context Voice=dynamicbit {
\property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'type = #'dotted-line
\property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'edge-height = #'(0 . 1.5)
\property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'edge-text = #'("" . "")
s8\spanrequest \start "text" \< s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 | s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 
s8\spanrequest \stop "text" s8 \! s8 
}>

-- 
chris