Re: span-event?

Carl Sorensen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2025, 3:59 AM Thomas Morley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in /scm/define-event-classes.scm we list all sorts of events in
> (define event-classes ...).
> What's the reason several spanners (Glissando, Tie and others) have no
> entry as span-event?
>

I assume it's because they don't have a start and stop. You begin and end a
slurs, or a hairpin.  But you add a glissando or a tie to a note and they
extend to the next appropriate note.

But I don't have a firm knowledge of this.

Carl
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