| I suggest nothing like that. Many users seems to use ties instead | of slurs. I suggested only to make them both legal (in the | standard). What can do more can do less. I will try to use | brackets for slurs when it's possible. If not (if it may confuse) | I'll use - instead.
In any case, most musicians don't consider them to be different. After all, the most common understanding of a slur is that the second note is to be played without an attack or articulation. If the second note is the same as the first, the result is a tie. So a tie is merely a special case of a slur. A tie is a slur in which both notes are the same. I'd predict that attempting to force musicians to distinguish ties and slurs will continue to be a losing battle. Most of them will have no idea what you're talking about. "They look the same on paper, and they sound the same when you play them. So what's the difference?" Granted, a few instruments can distinguish the two. But most can't. So to most musicians, there is no difference at all. There's just the supreme silliness of having a special name for a slur when the notes are the same. The only "user friendly" approach is to allow ties between different notes and slurs between identical notes. Anything else is merely harrassing your users with silly intellectual hair splitting. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
