Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
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> 2. Will the transition always be in the middle, or would it be preferable
> to
> define the transition point (e.g. 3/4 dashed, 1/4 solid).
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Actually, I found out that the "editorial" dashed slur is used in a very
"simple" manner in critical editions sco
Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
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> 1. Would it be better to have an abrupt transition
> from dashed to solid, or to have a gradual
> transition from dashed to solid, with the
> dash-fraction gradually increasing?
If I had to choose only one, I would say abrupt. If
you're willing to implement a gradual
On 4/13/09 10:02 AM, "Mark Polesky" wrote:
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> Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>> 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
Marc Hohl wrote:
> Daniel Taupin and Werner Icking created
> some fonts for dashed slurs, I have
> attached a page of a well-known piece
> of contemporary electric guitar :-),
> where I use dashed slurs (not created
> with lilypond)
Thanks Marc,
That's good to see. Though the solution I
prop
Mark Polesky wrote:
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> Oops.
>
Just back and I find this Easter present. Thanks Mark.
On the dashed slur: I find it in the critical edition (Chicago Univ/Ricordi)
of Verdi's Traviata edited by musicologist Fabrizio Della Seta, with the
meaning of an editor-added slur.
This Traviata looks lik
Kieren MacMillan schrieb:
Hi all you Slur-happy people,
1. Kudos to Mark for his amazing and generous contributions!
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 re
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:41 AM, David Stocker
wrote:
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>>> 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 c
Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> 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?
It's funny. There's a handwritten example of a
h
Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Jon (et al.),
The publisher of my guitar music [...] uses dashed slurs like these
with invariant thickness
I note that Barenreiter also uses invariant-thickness dashed lines
(e.g., Mozart Jupiter Symphony, m. 167).
So that appears to be "standard practice".
I th
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 i
Hi Jon (et al.),
The publisher of my guitar music [...] uses dashed slurs like these
with invariant thickness
I note that Barenreiter also uses invariant-thickness dashed lines
(e.g., Mozart Jupiter Symphony, m. 167).
So that appears to be "standard practice".
It probably would look nicer
Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi all you Slur-happy people,
1. Kudos to Mark for his amazing and generous contributions!
+1. Wow!
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 sl
Hi all you Slur-happy people,
1. Kudos to Mark for his amazing and generous contributions!
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
thickene
Oops.
\slurSolid needs to be added to the beginning
of the music function in case \slurDashed was
called before \slurSolidDashed (as an example).
- Mark
\version "2.13.0"
halfAndHalfSlur =
#(define-music-function
(parser location switch-point start-dashed?)
(number? boolean?)
#
Mark Polesky wrote:
MonAmiPierrot wrote:
Is there any way to have a half-dashed-half-solid Slur, i.e. a slur that
begins dashed and at a certain point turns solid (or viceversa?)
Piero,
here's one solution. Personally, I don't think it
looks quite as good as it should, but maybe you're
Look
Mark Polesky wrote:
> here's one solution.
same function with leaner code.
Got rid of about 15 lines.
- Mark
\version "2.13.0"
halfAndHalfSlur =
#(define-music-function
(parser location switch-point start-dashed?)
(number? boolean?)
#{
% set 'layer to -2 if you're also using
MonAmiPierrot wrote:
> Is there any way to have a half-dashed-half-solid Slur, i.e. a slur that
> begins dashed and at a certain point turns solid (or viceversa?)
Piero,
here's one solution. Personally, I don't think it
looks quite as good as it should, but maybe you're
not as picky as I am. Prin
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