Re: Dashed, variable-thickness slurs

[Ian Hulin]

Hi Carl,
I'll comment on the bits I feel qualified on: the documentation bits.

It's taken me while following the threads on lilypond-devel and 
lilypond-user to work out */why/* this has been developed.

The most common use seems to be so you can notate a phrase where notes 
have varying degrees of articulation or bowing weight, in a similar way 
that the hairpins show variations in dynamic intensity.

Before seeing this thread, I'd only seen slur/phrasing marks with 
renditions like dotted or dashed to show added editorial phrasings as 
distinct from Urtext ones which were inherited from the composer's 
manuscript.

Is there a slot in the documentation that covers the usage of all this 
fancy slur-sign stuff (LR NR)?

Cheers,

Ian



Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> Dear LilyPond users,
>
> I've posted a patch for approval that implements variable thickness dashed
> and part-dashed, part-solid slurs.  I hope it will be fully implemented in
> 2.13.1.
>
> As a preview, here's some slurs that were output by the new code.
>
> Please let me know if these are acceptable, or if you'd like to see other
> changes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
>
>
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