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line-spanner-interface

Generic line drawn between two objects, eg. for use with glissandi. gap is measured in staff-spaces. The property 'type is one of: line, dashed-line, trill, dotted-line or zigzag.


dash-length (number)
the length of a dash.
dash-period (number)
the length of one dash + white space.
gap (dimension, in staff space)
Size of a gap in a variable symbol.
thickness (number)
thickness, measured in stafflinethickness.
type (symbol)

zigzag-length (dimension, in staff space)
The length of the lines of a zigzag - relative to zigzag-width. a value of 1 gives 60-degree zigzags.
zigzag-width (dimension, in staff space)
the width of one zigzag-squiggle, measured in staff space. The width will be adjusted so that the line can be constructed from a whole number of squiggles.

This grob interface is used in the following graphical objects: VoiceFollower and Glissando


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