Hi Jay, > I would have expected something like this to work > e''8-1^\markup {\bold "#8"} \slurDown > ( > \slurNeutral > (f-2 e f) fis-3 (f-2 fis f\)) > > but it won't compile. So I'm still not understanding that section or I'm > placing the \slur in the wrong place.
Is this what you're trying to do? music = { \slurDown e''8-1^\markup { \bold "#8"} \( \slurNeutral f-2( e f) fis-3 f-2( fis f\)) } \score { \music } Note that the slur marking ( comes *AFTER* the note you want the slur to start on — it's not like parenthesizing a formula. Hope this helps. Kieren. > Jay > > > Quoting James Bailey <derhindem...@googlemail.com>: > >> See section 5.4.2 in the notation reference, Direction and Placement >> >> On 23.01.2010, at 13:25, i...@soundand.com wrote: >> >>> >>> version 12.2 >>> I would like to have the slurs in the following \slurDown and the long >>> phrase Neutral or up but the LSR example is confusing as it uses many >>> voices and I can't get it to usefully work for me. >>> >>> e''8-1^\markup {\bold "#8"} \ ((f-2 e f) fis-3 (f-2 fis f\)) >>> >>> The slurs and phrase markings are correct I just would like to control up >>> and down. >>> Thanks >>> Jay >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lilypond-user mailing list >>> lilypond-user@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user