> > I'm sorry to say that I don't even know the proper term for what I am > trying to do. I am setting some Georgian folksongs. Sometimes they end with > a descending glide on the last note (like an engine running down). On the > handwritten sheet music I have been using this is represented as a squiggly > descending line after the last note. I'd like to put that in my score, but > I have no idea how to code it. Does anyone have an idea? > John Burt
Look at glissando. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-as-lines Scroll down to find an example with the squiggly line. -Greg