Hi Fennel,
> I would like to draw lines between fingerings to indicate shifts, pivots,
> etc. on an unfretted string instrument.
> Say I have something like the following:
> \version "2.24.3"
> \relative c' {
> c4-1 d-2
> }
>
> I would like to produce something similar to the following:
> <image.png>
> I know that this is achievable using markup and \draw-line as specified here,
> but as changes are made to my project and the spacing between notes changes,
> I’d have to go back and manually tweak all of the coordinates for all of the
> lines in the project, and there will be quite a few.
Maybe this will point you in the right direction?
%%% SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.25.11"
oneTotwo = \relative c' {
\once \override TextSpanner.style = #'line
\once \override TextSpanner.thickness = #2
\once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.stencil-align-dir-y = #CENTER
\once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.stencil-align-dir-y =
#CENTER
\once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup \fontsize #-3
\concat { \number "1" \hspace #0.2 }
\once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = \markup \fontsize
#-3 \concat { \hspace #0.2 \number "2" }
c4\startTextSpan d\stopTextSpan
}
\score { \oneTotwo }
\score {
\oneTotwo
\layout { ragged-right = ##f }
}
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
You’d probably want to build a music function to wrap all that stuff so you’d
just have to write
\fingspan #'(1 2)
or some such thing.
Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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