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Typing music for many consecutive tremolos with the same base duration becomes tedious. This is a function to make this easier.

By default LilyPond does not unfold tremolo repeats for midi. A function for unfolding only tremolo repeats is also included.

When left-aligning bar numbers, overlapping problems may occur with staff brackets.

The snippet solves this by keeping the first bar number right-aligned that follows a line break.

A contemporary glissando without a final note can be typeset using a hidden note and cadenza timing.

A contemporary glissando without a final note can be typeset using a hidden note and duration scaling.

The angle (damping) of the beams can be modified. In the following example, various settings are demonstrated.

This example demonstrates how to place prefatory items (such as the clef and key signature) at the end of a line.

Here is a set of 4 functions to check or modify the pitch range in a piece of music.

  \correctOctave
  \correctOctaveOutOfRange
  \colorizeOutOfRange
  \parenthesizeOutOfRange

Here is the code of each Staff.

  \music                                 % staff 1
  \correctOctave #'above g'' \music      % staff 2
  \correctOctave #'below g' \music       % staff 3
  \correctOctaveOutOfRange g' g'' \music % staff 4
  \colorizeOutOfRange g' g'' \music      % staff 5
  \parenthesizeOutOfRange g' g'' \music  % staff 6

The visibility of spanners which end on the first note following a line break is controlled by the after-line-breaking callback ly:spanner::kill-zero-spanned-time.

For objects such as glissandos and hairpins, the default behaviour is to hide the spanner after a break; disabling the callback will allow the left-broken span to be shown.

Conversely, spanners which are usually visible, such as text spans, can be hidden by enabling the callback.

Using various properties of the StemTremolo grob it is possible to control the appearance of tremolo slashes.

• Property slope sets the slope for tremolo slashes.

• Property shape determines whether tremolo slashes look like rectangles (value rectangle) or like very small beams (value beam-like).

• Property style sets both the slope and the shape depending on whether the note has flags, beams, or only a plain stem. This is in contrast to the previous two properties, which change the slope and shape unconditionally. There are two styles defined.

  • default: slashes for down-stem flags are longer and more sloped than slashes for up-stem flags; slashes on beamed notes have a rectangular shape and are parallel to the beam.
  • constant: all slashes are beam-like and have the same slope except for down-stem flags.

<p>The placement of fingering numbers can be controlled precisely by using the property <code>fingeringOrientation</code>. For fingering orientation to apply, the fingering command must be used within a chord construct (<code>&lt;...&gt;</code>), even for single notes. Orientation for string numbers and right-hand fingerings may be controlled in a similar way by using the properties <code>stringNumberOrientation</code> and <code>strokeFingerOrientation</code>, respectively.</p> <p>These properties can be set to a list of one to three values. They control whether fingerings may be placed above (if <code>up</code> appears in the list), below (if <code>down</code> appears), to the left (if <code>left</code> appears), or to the right (if <code>right</code> appears). Conversely, if a location is not listed, no fingering is placed there. LilyPond takes these constraints and works out the best placement for the fingering of the notes of the following chords. Note that <code>left</code> and <code>right</code> are mutually exclusive – fingerings may be placed only on one side or the other, not both.</p>