Re: consecutive downbow-upbow articulations

[Mats Bengtsson]

On 09/04/2012 09:55 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey,
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Jeffrey Trevino
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > >Eluze! Exactly. Thank you so much. But the two symbols are overlapping with
> > >one another. How do you think I should make sure that the upbow symbol isn't
> > >drawn on top of the downbow symbol? J
> > >
> What about:
>
> {
>    c'^\markup {
>         \concat {
>           \musicglyph #"scripts.downbow" \hspace #2 \musicglyph #"scripts.upbow"
>         }
>    }
> }
If you are happy with the default spacing between "words" in markups, 
then you can simplify the markup command into

c^\markup{\musicglyph #"scripts.downbow" \musicglyph #"scripts.upbow"}

A final alternative, if you for example have a whole note and want to 
align the upbow with a note in some other part that comes on the third 
beat, then you could attach it to a spacer note:
\score{
<<
\new Staff \relative c' {
  c1 | << {c^\downbow } {s2 s^\upbow} >> | c
  }
\new Staff \relative c' {c2 e | g8 a g f e2 | c'1 }
>>
}

   /Mats