I forgot to add this to the initial email https://wiki.ccarh.org/images/c/c8/Score-Reference-Manual.pdf See pages 51-63 (printed pages) from the manual of SCORE to get an idea of what controls the slurs/ties might need to have to approximate the intended functionality.
The important things are: • maintain as much as possible of the default Lilypond functionality • the flatness/curviness adjustments • the ability to make slurs asymmetric. This important for slurs with an angle pg. 59), • ability to have an incomplete flattened slur/tie for when system/page breaks happen or other rare edge cases • keeping functionality of the dashed variant • should work with L.V. ties as well • ability to define different curvature for the after-line-breaking portion of the slur/tie On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 1:53 PM Dimitris Marinakis <dtsmari...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been trying to emulate the look of SCORE (don't ask why, I just like > it) and the hardest thing has been getting the signature look of its slurs > & ties. > > I've attached an example of how my current efforts look (work in progress > - has a few mistakes). I use the Scorlatti font and a TON of tweaks to get > something that looks like SCORE. > > I think such a tweak will go pretty deep so if any experts here are > willing to help that would be great. I hope it doesn't have to involve any > C++ to achieve this. > > Abraham Lee created this code "flat-ties-and-slurs" for me years ago but > it has some major limitations and still doesn't look like what I'm after. > > So I had to use something else. And that something else is the shapeII > code from OpenLilyLib. I meticulously reshape every single tie and slur to > get a satisfactory shape but this takes a lot of time and I wish I had a > code that does some of the work for me. > > There is a very pleasant almost flat but not completely flat part in the > middle portion of the bezier curve. > > Here are some references (I can get more if needed) > https://bmt-systems.com/score/Carter--PartSamples.PDF > https://bmt-systems.com/score/Carter--ChamberEnsembleSample.PDF > https://bmt-systems.com/score/Carter--OrchestralScoreSamples.PDF > https://bmt-systems.com/score/Carter--PianoReductionSamples.PDF > https://www.jeffreygrossman.com/images/GrossmanEngraving.pdf > >
