> I imagine that old-school engravers had a very limited number of slur
> shapes to work with,
No. Slurs were always drawn by hand.
> so this case would make the levitating slur the only option, unless
> the note-stem is inverted, in which case the slur looks very
> natural. So what did the old-timers do here, and did they do it
> from aesthetics, necessity, or convention?
If necessary, they have shortened the stem length, I think, or they
have inverted the stem direction. Both is possible in lilypond, but
the automatic default for stems without beams on the middle line
*must* be down.
Werner
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