> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 11:17:43 +0100
> From: Christian Mondrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Rick Kavinoky wrote:
>
> > In Scottish fiddle tunes there is a "straight slur": a straight line
> > instead of a curved line, placed the same as a standard slur.
> >
> > Is there some way to create this using musixtex?
>
> I'm also interested in this as straight lines are needed to indicate
> ligatures in modern transcriptions of music written in mensural notation.
> There is, however, the difference from the fiddle signs that the ligature
> must be indicated by brackets, i.e. the straight lines must be angled.
In a private discussion with Christian Mondrup we found that MusiXTeX's
\ovbkt and \unbkt is what he was looking for ;-)
Maybe that \ovbkt and \unbkt may help Rick Kavinoky, too, or at least
\varline which is the basis for the two others.
-- Werner
