How to apply \staccato to a single note in a chord?

I'm trying to represent a harp technique where two adjacent notes are struck at the same time and the lower of the two is immediately dampened. I tried to create a chord with only the first (lower) note marked as staccato, but the output showed the staccato dot over the second, higher note (indica

Re: How to apply \staccato to a single note in a chord?

Thanks Urs and Peter, that's exactly what I was after! Urs Liska openlilylib.org> writes: > You have to know that what you describe just is no regular notation (I > can't imagine differently articulated notes in a chord at all), so you > have to expect a slightly irregular solution. I've not

Disable spaces around italic text

When using `\italic`, it seems that spaces are inserted before and after the formatted text. Is it possible to disable this, ie, place an italic character directly next to a non-italic character? For example, the following prints 'a b c d e f g'; would it be possible to make it print 'ab cde fg

Re: Disable spaces around italic text

March 2015 at 13:43, Kevin Barry wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Ian Mackinnon > wrote: > >> When using `\italic`, it seems that spaces are inserted before and after >> the >> formatted text. Is it possible to disable this, ie, place an italic >>