> You mean you just want the slurs to extend before and after the > notes?
Yes, but ... > Any reason you can't use \shapeII from openlilylib? ... I don't want to have a manual solution – but thanks for the suggestion. What I imagine is a possibility to specify `front matter' and `back matter' that gets processed but not displayed, for example \relative c' { \frontmatter { f4( } g a b c \backmatter { d) } } which should be handled as \relative c' { \partial 4 f4( \break g a b c \break d) } with the first and third line thrown away. Something like that would be extremely helpful for chords with many ties, like in piano music. Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user