On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 2:26 AM Vaughan McAlley <vaug...@mcalley.net.au>
wrote:
> Hi Knute,
>
> Have you had any luck so far? After I read your original email I looked at
> what Gould had to say, and looked through a Henle edition of Beethoven
> piano sonatas. The Henle slurs all looked good (or at least not wrong), but
> placement looks like more of an art than a science when a slur is scaling
> high musical passages.
>
> Gould doesn’t give blanket statements about slurs, but it seems like her
> default position in the first bar of your excerpt is to attach the slur to
> the end of the stem, like the second version given. She then details
> various scenarios when it may be good to move the end of the slur closer to
> the notehead (but never pointing directly at it like the first version).
> There is probably a range of acceptable shapes, so maybe tweaking penalties
> could get default slurs closer to this range.
>
Jean suggested:
\override Slur.details.region-size = 10
...which helps. I found I sometimes still had to use \shape, but the slurs
LilyPond produced were much closer to what I would like. I think using
\shape is unavoidable in some cases, especially when the passage has very
large intervals between notes.
--
Knute Snortum
