On Wed 19 Feb 2025 at 09:35:24 (-0800), Knute Snortum wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM Richard Shann wrote:
> >
> > This looks promising and I would like to try to understand what the two
> > duration parameters 8.. and 32 are doing in this context.
> > The only documentation I have found for \after is
> >
> > \after delta (duration) ev (music) mus (music) ⇒ music
> > Add music ev with a delay of delta after the onset of mus
> >
> > I'm not sure what "Add" means here - playing around with various values
> > has got me confused - some values push subsequent notes into the next
> > bar, others change the spacing of bars before and after as if it had
> > affected the Score.SpacingSpanner.spacing-increment.
> >
> > I wonder if someone could shed some light on this. The goal is to
> > create a glissando from a note to a non-printing note - I'm this means
> > its note-column (?) is made wider, but otherwise the spacing is normal.
> >
> > >
> > > \version "2.25.18"
> > > \relative c'' {
> > > \time 3/4
> > > \override Glissando.style = #'zigzag
> > > c4 c4
> > > \after 8.. {\hideNotes
> > > {c,,32}
> > > \unHideNotes
> > > } c''4\glissando
> > > \bar "|"
> > > R2.
> > > }
> >
> >
> The \after command solves this problem: say you have this music:
>
> { c'2. c'4 }
>
> ...and you want to add markup text to the second beat. There is no note on
> the second beat, so you would write:
>
> { \after 4 ^\markup "A" c'2. c'4 }
>
> That is, after a duration of 4, add ^\markup "A" as if a note were there.
> Now in the case of the glissando, you really don't need \after, you could
> just write:
>
> \relative c'' {
> \time 3/4
> \override Glissando.style = #'zigzag
> c4 c4
> c4*7/8\glissando
> \hideNotes c,,32 \unHideNotes
> \bar "|"
> R2.
> }
So one or other of those should replace the original example
in NR that is decidedly long in the tooth, dating from 2.12.0.
(Particularly as the original one doesn't really work.)
Cheers,
David.
