Re: Shortening ties

[Henrik Frisk]

Stewart Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:

> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Laissez-vibrer-ties.html
> 
> Is that of any use? You can use LaissezVibrerTieColumn #'X-extent to
> lengthen them to your desired length.
> 
Unfortunately that will not do it (as someone else pointed out in this
thread X-extent doesn't actually change the size of an object). If you
want detailed control over ties or LaissezVibrer ties you can use
the property #'control-points though it is kind of tricky and not very
well documented. It takes a list of four number pairs as its argument
#'((x . y) (x . y) (x . y) (x . y)

These coordinates are the control points of the tie (beginning, before
middle, after middle, end). With this you can actually draw some pretty
wild shapes!

%%%%%% begin snippet
\version "2.9.11"
\score {
  <<
    \new Staff \relative c' {
      c4 \laissezVibrer s4*3 |
      \once \override LaissezVibrerTie #'control-points = #'((0.75 . -4) (2 . 
-4.5) (4 . -4.5) (6 . -4))
      c4 \laissezVibrer s4*3 |
      s4*4 |
    }
  >>
}

\paper {
  ragged-right = ##t
}
%%%%%% end snippet

/henrik