Re: slurs and brackets

[Graham Percival]

On 14-Aug-05, at 9:40 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> - i want to show the half tones between e and f,  b and c: i would 
> like to use a V shaped slur for that (right now it's just a simple 
> slur), is there a command i have overseen to generate such a shape. i 
> tried some markup commands but that didn't yield the results i wanted.

Hmm... did you try using analysis brackets?  If you tweak the
bracket-flare option, you might be able to get something that's closer 
to what you want
than a slur.

For details about tweaking that option, see chapter 9 Changing defaults.

> - is there a way to put the analysis brackets below and above the 
> notes (depending on the situation). The Ligature Brackets may be a 
> workaround for this, but they have a slightly different shape.

Depends what you mean by "depending on the situation" -- you can 
manually
specify the direction.

\score {
       \relative c'' {
         c4\startGroup\startGroup
         c4\stopGroup
\override Staff.HorizontalBracket #'direction = #1
         c4\startGroup
         c4\stopGroup\stopGroup
       }
       \layout {
         \context {
           \Staff \consists "Horizontal_bracket_engraver"
     }}}