Re: Glissando line, follow Staff

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Rune Zedeler <address@hidden> writes:

> I would like an a bit more sophisticated routine for calculating the
> glissando lines.
> Now, the line is just drawn from horisontally right of the first note to
> horisontally left of the last note.
> This is quite ugly especially when the notes are almost above each other
> (sometimes the line is actually drawn backwards, argh). I would rather
> like the line to be a part of the line connecting the CENTRE OF THE NOTE
> HEADS.

Sure, the calculations are in line-spanner.cc, for simple not across
line breaks it's just 6 lines or so, now.

> followStaff is also a bit unintelligent; it should not draw a line if
> the staff switch is already connected by a knee.

That's a known bug now.  This involves more than a bit of work,
there's a comment in the code (note-head-line-engraver.cc)

> By the way: How do you change the staff switch line to dashed?
> I tried

> \property Thread.Glisssando \set #'type = #'dashed-line

Use: Thread.FollowThread \set #'..

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