Re: Notation for string portamento

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mi., 20. Feb. 2019 um 04:22 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bernard
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> Hi Ralph,
>
> Thanks for this. I came up with the same thing. But, my score is very tight, 
> and grace notes take up space and tend to push positioning around. I was 
> hoping there may be a solution with some sort of note head engraver for 
> putting accents on notes. I think Nicholas Sceaux did something like this for 
> Baroque ornaments. But I have never been able to fathom how to code new 
> engravers. High time I learned. Any pointers, anyone?
>
> Andrew

Hi Andrew,

it's possible to use the code by Nicholas Sceaux.
Though, I'd need some more info. Look at the attached image. The red
line is created by Nicolas' code (with some changes).
For now I placed it via extra-offset. To do this in a more automagic
way: where should it be per default?
- before a (possible) arpeggio
- between (possible) arpeggio and (possible) accidentals.
- between (possible) accidentals and note-head
- what about other objects to the left of the note-head, p.e.
fingerings, string-numbers, probably parenthesized note-heads


Cheers,
  Harm

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