Re: articulation closest to note?

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:06:46 +0200
Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > IIRC, in previous versions of lilypond, you could specify which
> > articulation you wanted to have closest to the note.  This doesn't
> > happen in 1.5.73+(a few days of cvs).
> > 
> > This:
> > \score{ \notes {a---. a-.-- a---. a-.--}\paper{}}
> > 
> > produces four notes, all with staccato nearest to the note and legato
> > further away.
> 
> Generally, staccatos should be closer to a note (right?). Lily gives

Whoops.  Yes, you're right.  I thought it was the other way around, but
Britten's second cello suite agrees with you.  :)

> precedence to this rule over user input.  Am I right in saying that
> you really want a separate tenuto mark? Howabout a-_ ?

I wanted a note with a dot and a line, but I was confused about which
way around they were supposed to be.

I'll add a note about this in the User manual -> Articulation.

Cheers,
- Graham