Re: Invisible glissano, best fix?

[Phil Burfitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2015 10:54 AM
Subject: Invisible glissano, best fix?


> In some circumstances LilyPond leaves a glissando invisible:
>
> \version "2.19.25"
>
> {
>   d'' 4\glissando  cis'' 4  c''   b' }
>
> I looked up the issues list and found this:
>
> { \override Glissando #'minimum-length = #5
>   \override Glissando #'springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods
>   d'' 4\glissando  cis'' 4  c''   b' }
>
> but before I did that I just used a command available in Denemo thus:
>
> { d'' 4\glissando   \once \override NoteColumn.X-offset = #2
>    cis'' 4  c''   b' }
>
> These achieve similar effects for this tiny example, I wonder if someone
> could give me some insights into the merits or demerits of these
> approaches?
>
> Richard



I had a similar problem in the past with what I thought was an 'invisible' 
glissando. It turned out it was not invisible, but _very_ small. The fix was 
to modify the right and left padding in the bound-details to smaller values 
which then 'revealed' the glissando.


Phil.