Re: Vertical positions of slurs and accents

[Timothy Lanfear]

On 27/09/2024 16:14, David Sumbler wrote:

On Fri, 2024-09-27 at 07:54 -0700, Knute Snortum wrote:

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 7:42 AM David Sumbler <david@aeolia.co.uk> wrote:

How do I persuade Lilypond to position all accent marks inside slurs?  At the moment, in a passage containing numerous accents and slurs, I am finding that some accents are outside the slur and some inside, which looks a mess!

It's hard to help you with a Minimum WorkingExample (MWE, see https://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html) but a sledgehammer approach would be to use...

\override Script.avoid-slur = #'inside

This will force ALL Scripts inside of the slurs, but that means other things like pralls and turns too.  You could do them one by one with:

\tweak avoid-slur = #'inside

Post a MWE for us to work with and we'll give you a better answer.

Thanks - that's perfect.  The difficulty I had was that I couldn't figure out what class of object an accent is.  I had already tried

\override TextScript.avoid-slur = #'inside

but this of course doesn't work.  I couldn't find out from the documentation how accents etc. are classified, although I expect it is there somewhere.

If you would like to modify the avoid-slur behaviour of all accents (but not other articulations) you could try this.

\version "2.24.0"

#(let* ((name 'accent)
        (newvalue '(avoid-slur . inside))
        (articulation (assoc-ref default-script-alist name)))
   (set! articulation (assoc-remove! articulation (car newvalue)))
   (set! articulation (assoc-set! articulation (car newvalue) (cdr newvalue)))
   (set! default-script-alist (assoc-set! default-script-alist name articulation)))

{
  a'4( b'^\trill c''^> d'')
}

-- 
Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.