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Diagonal slash marks
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Sometimes, instead of a note or notes,
a diagonal slash mark is printed on a staff.
This is used for various purposes,
such as strumming a chord (in a
guitar part), or to mean that the previous beat should be
repeated or
that a note should be improvised.
You can get slash marks for all notes by setting the
<A HREF="param.html#notehead">noteheads parameter.</A>
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noteheads = "allslash"
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or if you want to use hollow slashes for half notes and longer
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noteheads = "slash"
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Usually such slash marks do not include a stem,
so you may wish to also set
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stemlen=0
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If you just want specific chords to be slashes, you can use the
chord head shape override:
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1: b;[ hs "allslash"; len 0 ]... ;;;
bar
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