Re: Introducing two new markup-commands: draw-dashed-line and draw-dotted-line. (issue 7029045)

[dak]

On 2012/12/31 00:07:12, thomasmorley65 wrote:

> I thought about extending \draw-line with a 'style-property.
> But in extreme cases you would have to write:

> \markup {
>    \override #'(style . dashed)
>    \override #'(on . 0.5)
>    \override #'(off . 0.2)
>    \override #'(thickness . 2)
>    \draw-line #'(4 . 1)
> }

> This seems a bit overlaoded to me.

I don't consider

\markup {
  \override #'(on . 0.5)
  \override #'(off . 0.2)
  \override #'(thickness . 2)
  \draw-dashed-line #'(4 . 1)
}

considerably less overloaded.

> Ok, this will reduce the needed \overrides only by one, but I think
> any \override less would be nice.

Hm.

> And I'm thinking about writing additional commands for zigzag- and
> trill-style lines...

> > After all,
> > lines are not the only things that might be desirable to do with a
> > different line style.

> Do you have anything particular in mind?

Boxes, circles, underlines, ...  No, nothing particular, but it's not
uncommon.


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