Re: Horizontal Slurs (was Re: (no subject))

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-09-24 9:35 am, Urs Liska wrote:
> Is there any reason why the slrus in the attached example come out the
> way they do (i.e. so horizontal, with the left edge being so far away
> from the notehead)?

Seems to be a combination of slurring identical pitches and the 
articulation on the one note.  If you remove the staccato, the slur sits 
reasonably close.  If you change either pitch, then the slur behaves 
more normally.

%%%%
\version "2.19.83"

{ a'8._( a'16_.) \bar "||"
  a'8._( a'16) b'8._( a'16_.) a'8._( b'16_.) }
%%%%

> What would be the best way to deal with that? Of course I could \shape
> them individually, but there's a lot of them in the scores, so I'd
> prefer a *setting* to be applied.

Adjusting edge-attraction-factor seems to help, but be careful with too 
high a value as it collides with the articulation:

%%%%
\version "2.19.83"

{ \once \override Slur.details.edge-attraction-factor = #38
  a'8._( a'16_.)
  \once \override Slur.details.edge-attraction-factor = #48
  a'8._( a'16_.)
  \once \override Slur.details.edge-attraction-factor = #58
  a'8._( a'16_.) }
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill

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