Re: Flat slurs

[Urs Liska]

Am 13.02.2017 um 15:00 schrieb Urs Liska:
> Am 13.02.2017 um 12:25 schrieb Urs Liska:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> today I stumbled over some code in LilyPond's code base that creates a
>> bezier sandwich in Scheme. From this I was able to create a function
>> that creates opening and closing half sandwiches and connect them with
>> straight line beziers.
>>
>> With this function (in notation-snippets/shaping-bezier-curves in
>> https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets) it is now possible to draw real
>> flat slurs (see attachment). When I initially worked on multi-segment
>> slurs they suffered from being thinned out at each inflection point.
>>
>> There will be some room for improvements and syntactic sugar (e.g. to
>> simplify flat slurs or easily produce symmetric ones), but I'm already
>> extremely happy with this?
>>
>> Best
>> Urs
> This is a more real-world (but not too fine-tuned) example where it's
> clear that flat slurs can save lots of vertical space.

And a last one for today, fixing the poor drawing of the half-sandwich

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