-thumb = \script "thumb"
-accent = \script "accent"
-marcato = \script "marcato"
-staccatissimo = \script "staccatissimo"
-% Changed 27th October 2001 Heikki Junes <heikki.junes@hut.fi>
-% * portato = tenuto & staccato
-% * if you use portato = slur & staccato, then apply "c( d )e-."
-portato = \script "portato"
-fermata = \script "fermata"
-stopped = \script "stopped"
-staccato = \script "staccato"
-tenuto = \script "tenuto"
-upbow = \script "upbow"
-downbow = \script "downbow"
-lheel = \script "lheel"
-rheel = \script "rheel"
-ltoe = \script "ltoe"
-rtoe = \script "rtoe"
-turn = \script "turn"
-open = \script "open"
-flageolet = \script "flageolet"
-reverseturn = \script "reverseturn"
-trill = \script "trill"
-prall = \script "prall"
-mordent = \script "mordent"
-prallprall = \script "prallprall"
-prallmordent = \script "prallmordent"
-upprall = \script "upprall"
-downprall = \script "downprall"
-segno = \script "segno"
-coda = \script "coda"
+portato = #(make-articulation "portato"
+ 'midi-length
+ (lambda (len context)
+ (ly:moment-mul len (ly:make-moment 3/4))))
+prall = #(make-articulation "prall")
+pralldown = #(make-articulation "pralldown")
+prallmordent = #(make-articulation "prallmordent")
+prallprall = #(make-articulation "prallprall")
+prallup = #(make-articulation "prallup")
+reverseturn = #(make-articulation "reverseturn")
+rheel = #(make-articulation "rheel")
+rtoe = #(make-articulation "rtoe")
+segno = #(make-articulation "segno")
+shortfermata = #(make-articulation "shortfermata")
+signumcongruentiae = #(make-articulation "signumcongruentiae")
+snappizzicato = #(make-articulation "snappizzicato")
+staccatissimo = #(make-articulation "staccatissimo"
+ 'midi-length
+ (lambda (len context)
+ (seconds->moment 1/8 context))
+ 'midi-extra-velocity 6)
+staccato = #(make-articulation "staccato"
+ 'midi-length
+ (lambda (len context)
+ (moment-min (ly:moment-mul len (ly:make-moment 1/2))
+ (seconds->moment 1/2 context)))
+ 'midi-extra-velocity 4)
+stopped = #(make-articulation "stopped")
+tenuto = #(make-articulation "tenuto")
+thumb = \finger \markup \scale #(cons (magstep 5) (magstep 5))
+ \musicglyph #"scripts.thumb"
+trill = #(make-articulation "trill")
+turn = #(make-articulation "turn")
+upbow = #(make-articulation "upbow")
+upmordent = #(make-articulation "upmordent")
+upprall = #(make-articulation "upprall")
+varcoda = #(make-articulation "varcoda")
+verylongfermata = #(make-articulation "verylongfermata")
+
+% code char abbreviations
+dashHat = \marcato
+dashPlus = \stopped
+dashDash = \tenuto
+dashBang = \staccatissimo
+dashLarger = \accent
+dashDot = \staccato
+dashUnderscore = \portato