Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: > 2013/5/11 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: >> Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: >>> my experience (particularly with Fried project) shows that >>> with regard to slurs and ties, LilyPond is very far from automated >>> typesetting. If you want publication quality, you _have_ to tweak the >>> output quite heavily - would you rather do this via setting >>> control-points directly? Actually, \shape is quite close to the >>> spirit of automated engraving, because if the layout changes slightly, >>> \shape modifications usually "adapt" and still produce good results. >> >> Not if there is a change in line/page breaking. > > Sure, but it's still about a thousand times more reliable than > overriding control-points directly.
Hardly. It's slightly more benign against different amonuts of stretching/shrinking, but when the slur positioning algorithm changes, relative changes to control points will give unpredictable results. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
