On 3/6/11 2:44 AM, "Janek Warchoł" <lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/3/6 Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu>: >> >>> bars 8,9,11: ugly slurs, bad placement in bar 8 >> >> I agree with 9 and 11 having ugly slurs -- too sharply peaked. >> >> I've changed the slur scoring so that it doesn't try to move slurs away from >> staff lines. It cleans up the ugly slurs, at the expense of letting the >> slurs touch the line. I've attached a pdf with those changes. > > Looks great! > And in fact these slurs don't touch staff lines, there is a small > clearance. I printed it and it looks ok (however, my printer prints > *very* badly and shaky now, so it should be double-checked). I've looked at very large magnifications; the slurs in measures 8, 9, 10, and 11 all touch on one end. > >> I don't think 8 is an ugly slur, or that the placement is bad. Can you tell >> me what is ugly about it, and why the placement is bad? > > I'm not sure. Perhaps the left end is too high. I attach output from > finale 2008 demo, i'd say that something between this and current Lily > output would be optimal. > Looking at this comparison reminds me of how much I prefer the rounded ends of the LilyPond slurs to the pointed slurs of Finale. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
