Re: Flat slurs

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Butt-ugly.  There really is no need to almost touch the first and last
note when the slur passes other notes with lots more clearance anyway.

This example would really better be done by much less overall curveage.

-- 
David Kastrup