Termination lines for trills

• Mar 3, 2019 - 13:26
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
PR created
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

When a trill is to terminate before the end of a note, the note value should be divided to show the exact length of the trill. In addition it may be helpful to terminate the trill line with a notch (as in the second bar in the screenshot) to show that the premature cut-off is indeed intentional (not just sloppy notation).

trill-termination-line.png

See Gould "Behind Bars" pp. 136-137.

Comments

• Mar 3, 2019 - 13:43

No, I don't think there is one. I thought about using ornamentVerticalLine, but it is certainly much thinner and taller than the examples in Gould, and not intended for this purpose. I have implemented this locally drawing the notch graphically as a line - it has the advantage of allowing properties for notch height and width, but probably won't look right for handwritten fonts. This might be an OK approach until such a glyph is added to SMuFL (if it is)?

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