> > Besides, the slurs that do work, don't look very nice, since they
> > start at the note heads and are very steep!
>
> All of them?
>
Where the stems and slurs are forced to go in the same direction, and when
the slur spans more than a pair of notes, if the slur starts and ends on
note heads then it is much steeper as it has to go over the stems in
between.
___
| / \
| / | \
|/ | \ |
x| | \ |
x| \ |
x|
instead of
______
/ \
| \
| | \
| | |
x| | |
x| |
x|
It seems to me that slurs that fall on the stem side and are longer than two
notes should mostly be stem to stem rather than head to head.