On 6/27/17 6:00 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of tisimst" <lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on behalf of tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Kieren MacMillan [via Lilypond] < >ml+s1069038n20417...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> Take my vote for having it as the default. >> > Excellent! At least that makes two of us ;-) (and Kieren, I believe). >> >> Yes. >> > >Cool! > >One thing I just noticed, upon closer inspection of using plain old Slur >overrides is that the dashes near the tips of the slurs or shorter than >those near the middle. This occurs because the stencil pieces are >parameterized with the time variable "t" internally. In other words, >because most slurs are longer horizontally than they are tall, the >progression of the time variable moves more slowly near the tips, >resulting >in shorter segments there and more quickly in the middle, resulting in >longer segments there. I completely understand why it is parameterized >this >way, but I'm not sure I like the output so much. Even the current default >dashed slurs suffer from this. > >I'm now wondering (since it looks a little odd to me to have visibly >shorter segments on the ends than in the middle), if there's an economical >way to create the stencil so each segment has a more consistent length? If >you compare the PS dashed curves and the dashed slurs with my latest >settings, you will see that the PS curve is much better at making the >segments more equal in length. > >Thoughts? You may be tempted to think that I'm being too nit-picky and >maybe I am, but I think the PS dashed curve looks better due to its >consistency. I've attached a PDF that shows all three kinds of dashed >slurs, the current default, the better one using Slur Overrides, and the >ideal one with PS code. The slur made with your slur overrides is clearly defective. I'm not sure why. I will investigate. If you go to high magnification you will see that some dash ends are concave and some are convex. That should never happen. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
