Thank you, Werner, for the informative reply regarding stem direction & slurs. The "levitating slur" is the only phenomenon that ever makes me think that LP's output looks unfinished or awkward, although I may be ill-informed and prejudiced on this matter, since the wysiwyg output I'm accustomed to always has the slurs begin and end very close to noteheads or stems. If slurs were always hand drawn, and can't see (intuitively) why anyone would have them so far from the note as they appear in my previous example. Perhaps the old-engraving methods of dealing with this problem can be studied and incorporated into LP at some future point. But even if they aren't it will still look better than anything else. [8^)>
Fr. P -----Original Message----- From: Werner LEMBERG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 12:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Middle line stem direction in 2.8 > 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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
