On Tuesday, 7 March 2000, Dirk Lattermann writes:
Hi Dirk,
Thanks very much for the discription of your findings. You found some
bugs and (still) some real ugly slurs. The exact placment (of the edges)
esp. at line-break hasn't been revised yet. I hope we can redo this some
time soon.
> I must say I am really in awe on lily's recent beautiful drawing
> of slurs and ties. This is a great improvement! However, as you
Thanks, we think so too. There's still room for improvement, but
we'll probably stick with this implementation for now.
> (esp. Jan, I think) told us to look for flaws in the slur drawing,
> I can provide some (but I need to be picky sometimes ;-) )
Yes, I can see. But I feel your pickyness is `right'.
> 1. There are bar numbers in the cello part in every bar that I didn't
> intend.
This is fixed in .30
> 2. There dynamic markings of the cello part are set in roman (maybe
> because of pizz. and arco in roman?)
Noted.
> 3. Let's start with slurs: look at bars 31 and 32 (switching a line).
> The slurs are IMO too steep, the tie is ok. Maybe the upper slur
> should start at the stem end, not at the head here?
Yes. This needs to be revised.
> 4. Bar 41/42, violins: the ties should be the same direction, pref.
> down in bar 42.
Noted.
> 5. Bar 49, 50, violin 2: the end points of the two slurs look a bit
> too far away from the start and end notes (though I'm not really
> sure).
This is a difficult one, I agree. I'm not certain what to do here,
but it looks not too good.
> 6. (Here I am being _very_ picky:) Bar 55, viol. 1, the ends of the
> slur are too steep (esp. the start)
Similar to 5, but uglier.
> 7. This is a bug: there's a colon in the middle of the two harmonium
> staves
Noted.
> 8. bars 62/63, picky again: a steep tie, compared to the following
> slur (the slur looks very nice!)
>
> 9. bars 67 ff, harmonium lower staff: the slurs end a tiny bit too late
> (yes, picky again.)
To be revised.
> 10. bars 70, 71 harmonium: the placement of the slur in bar 70 compared
> to the tie in bar 71 is just great! My heart is full of joy about this!
:-)
> 11. bars 73, 74, 75, violin 2: the slurs bended upwards are too steep,
> in 74, 75, they should start at the end of the stems. I know this
> is all said more easily than done, I'm sorry...
Ok.
> 12. bars 82 to 84 and 88: the ties of upper harmonium should all bend down.
Noted.
> 13. bars 85 and 87, viol. 2: the slurs look a bit shifted to the right.
>
> 14. in bar 87, viol 2 it looks a bit too far away from the notes (hard one,
> I guess)
Tbr.
> 15. bar 89, harmonium, the ties coming from the previous line look strangely
> asymmetric.
>
> 16. bar 92, lower harmonium, the tie should bend downwards.
Yes, seen this before (broken ties).
> 17. bar 93, lower harmonium, the tie is curved too strongly.
I don't see this.
> 18. the closing repeat sign matching 7.
>
> Now, I really have to say again that most of the slurs and ties really
> look great and better than ever! I didn't mention the placement of ties
> between too chords, which are now evenly distributed between bending
> up and down! I was looking forward to this from the first time
> I used lily!
Thanks again.
> I am really thankful for this, this is well done.
> Please tell me if you have problems in reproducing the effects I described
> above using the attached files.
Apart from already fixed and your .17 (ah, 17. might be fixed in pl.31!)
I think I see what you see.
Thanks for the report.
Greetings,
Jan.
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