On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:41 AM, David Stocker <dstoc...@thenotesetter.com> wrote: > >>> 2. Does it (now) bother anyone else that dashed slurs do not look like >>> real slurs? I guess I always assumed — without visually confirming, >>> obviously — that dashed slurs were real slurs (that thickened and tapered, >>> etc.) with cutouts; I now see that dashed "slurs" are simply dashed lines >>> (of invariant thickness) which curve along the path that a slur would take >>> between two notes. What is standard engraving practice when it comes to such >>> things? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Kieren. > > In older scores made with the program SCORE, dashed ties and slurs thickened > in the middle as you describe and they looked good. In Finale, dashed-slurs > have a similarly non-dynamic shape (that is, they don't thicken in the > middle), and dashed ties aren't available at all, except by 'fooling' Finale > by slurring two notes of the same pitch, and this is an ugly and time > consuming process in Finale. Sibelius is similar. >> >> The publisher of my guitar music (Les Productions D'Oz in Quebec, Canada) >> uses dashed slurs like these with invariant thickness to indicate pull-offs >> and hammer-ons, and uses regular slur markings for phrase slurs. I can't >> say that I've noticed dashed slurs in other places before. Sylvain (the >> editor at D'Oz) always uses these dashed-line things, though. It probably >> would look nicer if they thickened in the middle and tapered at the ends. :) > > In popular guitar-tab music, we use dashed-ties to connect held harmonic > pitches over the bar line. I have also seen dashed-slurs to denote ligado > technique in classical guitar music (and perhaps other string music, I can't > recall). >> >> Jon >> > David >
Dashed slurs are often used in choral writing to indicate a place where no breath should be taken. As others have pointed out, several publishers use the non-tapered defaults in other software, but I have several recent scores from Oxford University Press where they are still going to the trouble of tapering the slurs. I will scan an example and send it in. Andrew _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
