Re: glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

[Mats Bengtsson]

Robert T Wyatt wrote:
> 2.5.23 MacOS 10.3.9
>
> Hi!
> I have some questions relating to the file enclosed below.
>
> 1) First, a possible bug: My glissando in the first measure dissappeared 
> (but the gliss between measures 11/12 is present). I think it happened 
> when I implemented the voltas (please correct my pluralization if I have 
> it wrong). Lilypond is not giving errors, but that does not exclude poor 
> implementation on my part.

I see one here, using 2.5.24.

> 2) I would like a fat, wavy gliss instead of the default, tiny gliss (I 
> saw some notes about this and I haven't finished reading them, so I'm 
> not at the end of my rope on this one yet).

Try playing with the following settings:

\override Glissando  #'style = #'zigzag
\override Glissando  #'thickness = 3

> 3) I need to move a lot of my chords left an eighth note. That is, the 
> correct pattern is largely 3/8, 5/8. I'm still trying to figure out how 
> to implement this well (do I need to use--a plethora of--silent 
> rests?--shudder at the thought). Also, I need a tacit chord in the 27th 
> measure; I can probably figure out the tacit on my own once I get the 
> chords over the right beats.

Why not simply specify the rhythm you want? For example
d4.:m  a2*5/4:7
for the first bar.


  /Mats