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From: | Kieren Richard MacMillan |
Subject: | Re: to be improved: short tie within staff from line is vertically exaggerated |
Date: | Sat, 1 Nov 2003 06:27:00 -0500 |
Hello, Heikki:
After looking at your examples (in PDF-files) [...] it looks like the small slurs are clear in the sense that they do notmerge with the staff line. Therefore, both slurs have the right heights.
I disagree -- here is my correction of the uppermost tie (done manually in a graphics program):
tieCorrected.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Note that the tie is exactly the same height as the lower two (in fact, I simply duplicated the third tie!), and yet it does not merge with the staff line. Furthermore, this "corrected" tie could be scaled down a tiny bit in Lilypond to avoid even the 'proximity blur' that one's eyes might add automatically in such cases (I just didn't know how to do that in Graphic Convertor).
[n.b. I left the second tie (counting from the top) uncorrected, for comparison purposes.]
What could be improved, is the roundness of the taller short slur. IMHO, the beatifulness of the slurs corresponds to the mathematical definition that the curvature of the slur increases from the center of the slur to its ends.
A very interesting theory/observation! Best regards, Kieren.
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