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Adding line between fingerings or a glissando between nonadjacent notes

Need a glissando between two nonadjacent notes or a line between two fingerings? \guide = dashed line. \gliss = glissando line.

Hairpin placed between two \markup or parenthesized hairpin

…You can use it to put a hairpin between any other text or markup element.

…this snippet is useful to put a hairpin between to markups i.e. parentheses or slash % or …

Showing barlines (SpanBars) only between systems

Span bars are drawn only between staff bar lines. By setting bar lines to transparent, they are shown only between systems.

Increasing distance between symbols that are printed above or below notes

…with side-position-interface can be set to increase distance between symbols that are printed above or below notes.

Increasing spacing between staves

…neither too cramped or loose. Changing the distance between systems, however, is easy to do. You may …

Mensurstriche layout (bar lines between the staves)

Mensurstriche, bar lines between but not through staves, can be printed by …

Grid lines: adding vertical lines between staves

Vertical lines can be drawn between staves synchronized with the notes.

Baroque Slash ornaments between chords

Slashes between notes of a chord - a Baroque ornament …

…The width of the dashes and the spacing between them can optionally be customized by adding a … …create wider dashes (1.5) with more space between them (1.2): \dashedStaffSymbolLines #'(1.5 . …

…The width of the dashes and the spacing between them can be altered by adding a pair … …width of the dash (dash-width (car dash-space)) ;; space between dashes (space-width (cdr dash-space)) ;; Construct the first dash (…

…to very short hyphens or even small gaps between syllables with no hyphen visible. This snippet merges …

…code{text} property of the @code{LyricHyphen} grob between @q{foo} and @q{bar} to @code{foo}. @… …#f))))) #(define (lyric-text::apply-magnetic-offset! grob) "If the space between two syllables is less than the value in … …left-text common X))) ;; `delta` is the gap width between two syllables. (delta (- (interval-start this-x-ext) (interval-end left-x-ext))) (…