I am looking for the best way to notate a fingering
instruction that tells a violinist to keep a finger
down. This involves a finger number followed by a
line that continues until the finger no longer needs
to be held down. I know several ways to do this and I
have included them in an example below. They can all
work, but each have their drawbacks. Does anyone know
of something better. I want a centered fingering
followed by a line. Thanks. Chris
\version "2.6.0"
test = \relative c'' {
\override TextSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'(1 . 0)
\override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #'()
b-1\startTextSpan c c b\stopTextSpan |
% this gives a good result,
% but the line is not locked
% with the fingering, so at times
% you would have to move the line,
% so this is not ideal
\revert TextSpanner #'shorten-pair
b^\markup { \finger 1 "-----------------" } c c b |
% this way you have to guess
% the number of dashes. it doesn't
% center the fingering in the sme way
% as a regular fingering instruction does.
% also, I want a solid line. i could use
% the underscore, but I would have to move
% that to get it positioned right with the number
\override TextSpanner #'font-encoding = #'fetaNumber
\override TextSpanner #'font-size = #-5
\override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'("1 " . " ")
\override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #'()
%\override TextSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'(0 . 0)
b\startTextSpan c c b\stopTextSpan |
% this works as in should in the way that I want,
% however the fingering is not nicely centered like
% a regular fingering instruction. also the line is
too
% close too the fingering. i am sure that I can get
% close to what I want with the
% commented out "shorten-pair"
% line but it would be nice if I could
% do this spanner with
% the left edge-text centered like a
% fingering and not have
% the line so close to the fingering.
}
\score {
\test
}
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