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3.1.86 MensuralLigature

A grob to display a ligature as used in mensural notation. See also KievanLigature, VaticanaLigature, and LigatureBracket.

MensuralLigature objects are created by the following engraver(s): Mensural_ligature_engraver.

Standard settings:

springs-and-rods (boolean):

ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods

Dummy variable for triggering spacing routines.

stencil (stencil):

ly:mensural-ligature::print

The symbol to print.

thickness (number):

1.3

For grobs made up of lines, this is the thickness of the line. For slurs and ties, this is the distance between the two arcs of the curve’s outline at its thickest point, not counting the diameter of the virtual “pen” that draws the arcs. This property is expressed as a multiple of the current staff-line thickness (i.e., the visual output is influenced by changes to Staff.StaffSymbol.thickness).

This object supports the following interface(s): font-interface, grob-interface, mensural-ligature-interface and spanner-interface.

This object is of class Spanner (characterized by spanner-interface).