\version "2.18.0" \header { texidoc = "@code{\\retrograde} can deal with crescendo and decrescendo as long as they are properly paired with @code{\\endcr}/@code{\\!} and @code{\\enddecr}. Direction modifiers on slurs like @code{^(} need to be repeated as @code{^)} at the end. Ties and glissandi work mostly (in-chord ties are turned into ordinary per-chord/note ties, however)." } \layout { ragged-right = ##t } motif = \relative { \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "motif" 2~\startTextSpan c16\< d^( e f~ f4:32^)\!\> | << \context Voice = "voice" { 4 g8\glissando f\stopTextSpan\enddecr } \\ { c2 } >> } \new Voice = "voice" { \motif \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "retrograde motif" \retrograde \motif \bar "|." }