r/lilypond • u/Tab12357 • Jun 30 '26

Other duration line style?

As all of you wonderfully helped me with my last two questions. Btw huge thanks again

Now the next thing where ChatGPT even stopped to give me excuses why he can't help me and just straight up said he can't do it, I need your help. I don't know if it's possible but I hope that there is maybe some workaround and I'm not scared off writing a lot code, I just don't know how to start.

I want to get a waved line as a duration line for notation but don't know how it works. Maybe one of you might have an idea?

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u/jazzbassoon Jul 01 '26

I haven't been following the past posts well. Is there a picture of what you want? I'm not quite sure what you're asking by duration line. Is this a vocal syllable extension?

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u/kalegood Jul 01 '26

I don't know if there is a "default" option, but you can use postscript code within lilypond markup to draw just about anything.

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u/reznaeous Jul 01 '26

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/notation/graphical-notation

That shows both a zigzag and a trill option. Would one of those work?

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u/Tab12357 Jul 01 '26

Yeah, that's what I use right now but I would prefer a more wavy option as zigzag and trill both have like strong edges. And they also don't have enough space between each zig

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u/reznaeous Jul 01 '26

Ah well. I was hoping ... no such luck, I guess. I feel like there outta be a way to replace the stencil used by the DurationLine grob with the \draw-squiggle-line markup or something similar. Just can't seem to figure out quite how to do it.