Re: Glissando disappears after line break

[Neil Puttock]

On 26 February 2011 22:01, Nick Payne <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm using glissandos with fingering in guitar scores to indicate that a
> finger should be kept on the string when moving up/down the fretboard. If
> this is between bars and across a line break, the glissando does not appear
> at the beginning of the new stave. Is there a way to have it show at the
> beginning of the following stave.

\override Glissando #'after-line-breaking = ##t % (or ##f or #'())

The behaviour's explained here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/snippets/expressive-marks#controlling-spanner-visibility-after-a-line-break

> This shows the problem (it also shows that
> the glissando sometimes doesn't appear at the end of the previous stave
> either):

There's no default for right-broken padding (it falls back to the
value for right padding, 1.5 staff spaces).

Cheers,
Neil