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Node:Span requests, Up:Manipulating music expressions
Span requests
Notational constructs that start and end on different notes can be
entered using span requests. The syntax is as follows:
\spanrequest startstop type
This defines a spanning request. The startstop parameter is either
-1 (\start) or 1 (\stop) and type is a string that
describes what should be started. Much of the syntactic sugar is a
shorthand for \spanrequest, for example,
c'4-\spanrequest \start "slur" c'4-\spanrequest \stop "slur"
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Among the supported types are crescendo, decrescendo,
beam, slur. This is an internal command. Users are
encouraged to use the shorthands which are defined in the initialization
file spanners.ly.
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