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Although LilyPond does not allow to specify a background color, it is possible to give the illusion of a colored background by printing a large colored box under the score, as demonstrated here.

This snippet shows how to create an 11-choir baroque lute tablature.

It can be adapted to any kind of lute or tunings and with any type of font (e.g. Bravura) for an old looking output.

Midi output and worksheet for guitar transcriptions are also included.

Slashes between notes of a chord - a Baroque ornament indicating that the lower neighbor notes should be struck almost simultaneously in a light arpeggio.

One subtype of the 'grace synchronisation issue' is the 'grace echo'. If a score wide collected event comes from at least one voice 'in time' while from one or more other voices it comes 'after the grace notes which do not exist in this/these voice(s)' the resulting grob will be created multiple times.

For metronome marks, bar lines and time signatures a very simple workaround is to just delete these echoed grobs. Here is an engraver which will do this job. Bar lines and time signatures will also be checked for equality and are only removed by this engraver if they are identical.

Additionally, by setting a grob proptery #'keep-grace-echo = ##t you can inhibit this grob removal to obtain a special output.



See also:

• LSR 978 (Repeat commands grace echo purger) for voltas ('\repeat volta' commands)
• LSR 976 (Multiple simultaneous RehearsalMarks, tunable output per score, grace synchronized) for markup commands

If you need to create some basic roman numeral and figured bass analysis within the body of a score, you can create a staff with the standard engravers removed and add markup to spaces.

Beam-ending rules specified in the Score context apply to all staves, but can be modified at both Staff and Voice levels:

There are no default automatic beam groupings specified for a number of non-standard time signatures, including 2/8, 7/8 and 10/8. If automatic beams are required the grouping must be specified using <code>beatStructure</code>. This example groups beams in 7/8 time in the pattern 2-3-2.

Line breaks are normally forbidden when beams cross bar lines; this behavior can be changed using enabling Beam.breakable.

This snippet shows how to print beat hints above a rhytmic staff.

\bendAfter can be used to create falls and doits. It can also be used with non-integer arguments to create microtonal bends.