I'm used to seeing the movement you describe notated as a line between the two fingering indications, which I fake with a shifted glissando with truncated ends:
%=========================================================== guide = #(define-music-function (parser location padleft padright) (number? number?) #{ \once \override Glissando #'bound-details #'left #'padding = #$padleft \once \override Glissando #'bound-details #'right #'padding = #$padright #}) \relative c' { \override Fingering #'staff-padding = #'() \guide #1 #1 d'2-2-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . 1.7)\glissando c-2 } %========================================================== Nick > -----Original Message----- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on....@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on....@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Peter Buhr > Sent: Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:46 AM > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: guitar guide-mark > > When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to > indicate a > guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like "-3", > but the > "-" is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide the > 3rd > finger from its previous position to this marked note on the same > string. (Just > in case someone doesn't know. ;-) So I want to write something like: > > c-{-3} or c-"-3" > > The first doesn't work and the latter puts the "-3" below the note. Is > there a > mechanism to accomplish this? Again, I have scanned all the > documentation and > not found an example, but I could have missed it.
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