Re: Spanner

[Peter Bjuhr]

On 2014-08-19 15:15, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
> On 08/19/2014 03:01 PM, Peter Bjuhr wrote:
> > On 2014-08-19 13:52, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm looking for something similar to the notation used in 
> > > contemporary scores to indicate things like wide vibrato, microtonal 
> > > "undulations", indeterminate glissando - it closely resembles a 
> > > trill spanner (without the "tr") but is more rounded and with 
> > > thinner lines. Is something similar to this available in lilypond?
> > >
> > > Many thanks.
> > > Peter
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Joram Berger and myself wrote a couple of posts about using SMuFL 
> > fonts in LilyPond in the LilyPond-blog (Scores of Beauty). Especially 
> > take a look at no 5 in Joram's list in this post: 
> > http://lilypondblog.org/2014/02/feta-and-bravura/
> >
> > If that looks interesting I could contribute with a code example.
> >
> > Best
> > Peter
>
> es, that's exactly what I'm looking for, particularly the four 
> "wiggles" above the staff to the right of this example.
> If you could share the code (if it's already available and doesn't 
> entail any extra work for you) that would be great.
> Thanks,
> Peter

I'm still not exactly sure what you want, but here's an example:

\include "custom-music-fonts/smufl/definitions.ily"

vibrato = \markup \smufllig
#'("wiggleVibratoSmallFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoSmallFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoSmallFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoSmallFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoSmallFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoMediumFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoMediumFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoMediumFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoLargeFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoLargeFaster"
   "wiggleVibratoLargeSlow")

\relative c''{
  c1^\vibrato
}

If you change the glyph names I think you'll be able to get what you want.

Note that you need to download the files from 
https://github.com/openlilylib/openlilylib to make the include work. 
Further you need to install the SMuFL font Bravura. See 
https://github.com/openlilylib/openlilylib/blob/master/custom-music-fonts/smufl/README.md 
for more information.

Best
Peter