Re: Trill and nonstandard expressive mark

[Nick Payne]

On 05/01/13 11:32, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
> This technique glues an upprall to a trill, but the difference in 
> width of the glyphs is noticeable. Is there a way to achieve this 
> without the discrepancy in width? Since lilypond produces the finest 
> engraved output I know, can we do better than this for baroque engraving?
> \version "2.17.9"
> > { c'-\tweak bound-details.left.text
> >               \markup \musicglyph #"scripts.upprall"
> >        \tweak bound-details.left.stencil-offset #'(0.1 . 0)
> >        \startTrillSpan
> >    d'
> >    c'2\stopTrillSpan }

You could use a left parenthesis and omit the upprall:

\version "2.17.9"

{ c'-\tweak bound-details.left.text
              \markup { \fontsize #-5 { \musicglyph 
#"accidentals.leftparen" } }
       \tweak bound-details.left.stencil-offset #'(0.02 . -0.65)
       \startTrillSpan
   d'
   c'2\stopTrillSpan }