based on the snippet "Cross-staff arpeggio brackets" in the LSR I found a nice way to mis-use arpeggios as barre indicators
hilites: - you don't even need chords for the arpeggio and - you can combine notes/chords with different durations! arpeggioAsBarre = \once \override Staff.Arpeggio #'stencil = #ly:arpeggio::brew-chord-bracket \markup { "6 or 3 voices/notes with a barre on the 3rd fret"} \score { \context Staff { \set Staff.connectArpeggios = ##t << \context Voice="1" { \voiceOne \arpeggioAsBarre g'' \arpeggio s \arpeggioAsBarre g'' \arpeggio } \context Voice="2" { \voiceOne \arpeggioAsBarre d'' s \arpeggioAsBarre d'' } \context Voice="3" { \voiceTwo \arpeggioAsBarre b' s \arpeggioAsBarre bes' \arpeggio } \context Voice="4" { \voiceTwo \arpeggioAsBarre g' \arpeggio r g' } \context Voice="5" { \voiceTwo \arpeggioAsBarre d' \arpeggio s d' } \context Voice="6" { \voiceTwo \arpeggioAsBarre g \arpeggio s s } \context Voice="1" { s -"III" } \context Voice="6" { s -"hurray!" } >> } \layout { \context { \Staff \consists "Span_arpeggio_engraver"} } } \markup { "combining chords with different durations" } \context Staff \with { \consists "Span_arpeggio_engraver"} { \clef "treble_8" \key c \major \set Staff.connectArpeggios = ##t \arpeggioAsBarre << { < e' g'> 4 \arpeggio r r 2 } \\ { < c g~ c'> 2 \arpeggio g } >> } http://www.nabble.com/file/p19542137/arpeggio%2Bas%2Bbarre.png -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/arpeggios-as-barre-indicators-tp19542137p19542137.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user