Thanks Simon!

Is the example realistic, with ligatures both above and below the staff? 
I didn’t find any way to obtain ligatures below the staff in the docs.

Maybe there was always one voice only per staff at the time?

JM

> Le 18 juil. 2018 à 03:15, Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> On 18.07.2018 02:41, Menu Jacques wrote:
>> Text spanners can be used in LP to obtain that, but what is their name in 
>> music in general?
> 
> They’re ligature brackets, used in modern editions to show that the mensural 
> original used a ligature for these notes.
> Using text spanners would therefore be not quite correct; the LilyPond 
> equivalent is
> { \[ c1 d \] }
> Note that this is the only spanner or item in general that unfortunately 
> still uses infix syntax instead of the usual postfix syntax.
> 
> Best, Simon


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