Re: glissando without start note?

[Robin Bannister]

BB wrote:
> With stringed instruments a playing technique (mainly in Rock, Pop,
> Blues, Jazz) to get some acoustic effect is to slide up a string to a
> defined fret without a real starting fret.


Have a look at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg01191.html

This was probably based on my old scoop stencil,
which uses a brackettips glyph (as initially proposed by Lewis Overton).
You can find an updated version of that here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-11/msg00161.html


Cheers,
Robin