Re: Trillspanner line thickness

[Mats Bengtsson]

The zigzag line is typeset by LilyPond using a number of copies of the 
scripts.trill_element glyph from the so-called Feta font (see 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/The-Feta-font#The-Feta-font).
Therefore, your only chance to change the thickness is to change the 
font size. As you have noted, just changing the font-size property of 
the TextSpanner object will also affect the "tr" indication, but the 
following trick can be used to compensate the font size of the "tr":

\override TrillSpanner #'font-size = #-3
\override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = 
#(make-translate-scaled-markup
                                            '(0.0 . -1.0)
                                            (make-fontsize-markup 3 
(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.trill")))

Note that the argument 3 to  make-fontsize-markup has to match the -3 in 
the font-size setting.

   /Mats

Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Hello,
>      I'm getting to the end of formatting a score, and I just need some 
> hints on changing the thickness of the zigzag line after trills.  I've 
> tried zigzag-width, thickness, and everything else that looked promising 
> but with no results.  I didn't use font-size because I want the trill sign 
> to stay the same size.
>
>      Is what I want to do possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
>
>       
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