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Re: Potential bug: Slur begins or ends with tenuto


From: Urs Liska
Subject: Re: Potential bug: Slur begins or ends with tenuto
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:03:27 +0100
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Am 12. November 2016 01:00:27 MEZ, schrieb Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>:
>On 11.11.2016 23:54, Daniel Rosen wrote:
>> It appears that LilyPond is refusing to allow Slur.positions to be
>specified in increments smaller than 0.5 staff spaces.
>
>Indeed the positions property does not set staff positions directly at 
>all. 

Adding to that: with beams the positions property does exactly what you'd 
expect.
Maybe a naming inconistence ...

>To understand, one has to know how LilyPond draws slurs in the 
>first place: It tries out a number of candidates and the one with the 
>best score (or rather the least demerit) is chosen – a heuristic 
>algorithm[1][2]. Now, setting the positions property can only influence
>
>which of the candidates will be chosen. If there is no candidate 
>matching your choice of positions, the closest one will be chosen. For 
>finer control, you need \shape.
>
>HTH, Simon
>
>[1] This is explained in more depth in the LilyPond essay, I think.
>[2] I think there is a way to have more candidates be created, but I 
>don’t recall how, sorry.
>
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