> On 13 Apr 2024, at 01:07, Greg Lindstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello - > > I would like to write a glissando leading into a note without a starting > note. Perhaps the term is not glissando, but we encounter it often in jazz > where the trumpets and trombones will "slide" up to a note to accentuate. It > may be called a "scoop" but that's speculation on my part. Here's an > example: Can this be done (by a mortal)?
Should be possible by tricking lilypond like in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-06/msg00132.html In that and other threads on scoops there are a few other tricks to achieve the same goal, but I think the approach in that message is the easiest to comprehend. My impression (no time to validate now) is that the trick from that post would pollute the midi file. So in case you need a more or less clean midi (which will nit contain any effect for the scoop) rather than just display in the sheet music the more complex workaround given in https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-12/msg00314.html might be worth a try HTH Hans > > <image.png> >
