Re: glissando up from no note to a note

[Trevor Daniels]

Mats Bengtsson wrote Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:10 AM


> Why not use an invisible grace note to start the glissando? Then, 
> there's no need to fiddle with the timing:
>
> \transpose c c'{
> \grace{ \hideNotes g,8\glissando \unHideNotes} c'4  c'4 c'4 r4 |
> \grace{\hideNotes c''8\glissando \unHideNotes} c'4  c'4 c'4 r4 |
> a1\fermata \grace{\hideNotes d'4\glissando \unHideNotes }|
> ees8->[ c8]-> r4 r2 |
> }
>
>
> Well, to answer my own question, the hidden grace note will be so 
> close to the following note, that the resulting glissando might 
> look too short. One possible workaround is to include more hidden 
> notes (or spacer notes) in the \grace{...}:
> \grace{ \hideNotes g,8\glissando s s \unHideNotes} c'4  c'4 c'4 r4 
> |

Or perhaps just lengthen the glissando - see example of
how to do this in the Notation Reference, section 5.4.5.

Trevor