Thank you, all!
On Mon, 2 Mar 2026, David Wright wrote:
> I find it easier to read the notes when the slurs are kept out of the way
> of the lyrics, by setting their direction to UP.
>
If there is only one voice on a staff, I agree. David, I like how you have
set all slurs to #UP in your PDF examples.
My real music is homophonic SATB (a choir staff with two staves), so I
don’t really have the option to set slurs within the alto and bass voices,
both of which have \voiceTwo applied, to #UP (although I did experiment
with that just now, just to be sure).
I've tried adopting Timothy's suggestion, and have attached PDFs of a
> sample, with (T) and without it.
>
I think I prefer the with (T) option, FWIW!
On Mon, 2 Mar 2026, Timothy Lanfear wrote:
I assume you would like the tips of the slurs to align with the horizontal
> centres of the notes. The code below moves the stem attachment point to the
> centre of the note head and then omits the stem.
>
Yes; brilliant!
> \layout {
>
> \context {
> \Voice
> \omit Stem
> \override NoteHead.stem-attachment = #'(0 . 0)
> }
> }
> }
>
My output looks so much better now. Many thanks, Timothy.
I think that the wiki should have a snippet on slurs with stemless note
heads. I didn’t know about stem-attachment until I read Timothy’s email
yesterday. And as far as I can tell, no snippet currently exists.
I will make a snippet unless someone can point me to something already
existing in the wiki or documentation.
