On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 04:15:49PM -0500, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> Are you sure that those "steep slurs" are not really a shortcut for
> multiple ties? Do you expect the reader to decide, rather than using
> more modern notation, when very few modern readers would suspect that
> Dvorak's intention was to sustain all the notes in the group to the end
> of the last note in the group?
Well, yes, I am sure Dvorak intended a phrase mark with these slurs and
not multiple ties. (You might object to me using the word 'slur', but
this is the English translation of the German word 'Bindebogen' I have
learned from several dictionaries. I am sorry if this causes confusion.)
>
> Of course if the phrase mark only spans two notes my suspicion is wrong,
> but one should always be suspicuous of a steep slur with a polyphonic
> instrument. If you were describing a horn part, my apologies. :-)
It really would be great if Lilypond could infer the intentions of
Dvorak or any other composer from mudela and act accordingly, making the
slurs flatter or steeper! Maybe this feature is implemented, and only the
documentation is missing! :-)
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