Re: Glissando line, follow Staff

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Rune Zedeler <address@hidden> writes:

> > > 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 #'..
> 
> Okay, thanks, that works. But why?

It's useful to be able to set different line types for Glissando and
FollowThread, so I decided they should be different grobs.

> followThread is a property of the Note_head_line_engraver; and the only
> grob that engraver creates is according to the documentation Glissando.

Hmm, it got removed by accident from the documentation in 1.3.126, it
will be fixed in 129.

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