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Expressive marks 68
Changing text and spanner styles for text dynamics
The text used for crescendos and decrescendos can be changed by modifying the context properties
crescendoText and decrescendoText.
The style of the spanner line can be changed by modifying the 'style property of
DynamicTextSpanner. The default value is 'dashed-line, and other possible values include
'line, 'dotted-line and 'none.
\relative c'' {
\set crescendoText = \markup { \italic { cresc. poco } }
\set crescendoSpanner = #'text
\override DynamicTextSpanner #'style = #'dotted-line
a2\< a
a2 a
a2 a
a2 a\mf
}
cresc. poco mf
Changing the appearance of a slur from solid to dotted or
dashed
The appearance of slurs may be changed from solid to dotted or dashed.
\relative c' {
c4( d e c)
\slurDotted
c4( d e c)
\slurSolid
c4( d e c)
\slurDashed
c4( d e c)
\slurSolid
c4( d e c)
}
Changing the breath mark symbol
The glyph of the breath mark can be tuned by overriding the text property of the
BreathingSign layout object with any markup text.
\relative c'' {
c2
\override BreathingSign #'text =
\markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.rvarcomma" }
\breathe
d2