Hi Ben,

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Personally, I would probably want the slur on the bottom as it's cleaner
> and easier to implement,
>

yes, and also notationally superior. But the client is, alas! a
hobbyist-composer who does things for "expressive" reasons and insists they
should be that way (I once got nearly into a shouting match because he had
directly translated the German "Attacke" [which means something like
"strike hard"] to the Italian "attacca" [which, as we know, means "continue
without break to the next movement"] and wouldn't believe he couldn't use
the latter as an expressive marking until I made him look it up in his
music dictionary). I would also point out that he puts a phrasing slur on
*every* phrase, throughout the piece, so this is a recurring issue. Sigh.


> but I guess you could play around and offset the slur to taste...
> [see attached]
>
>
Ah, thank you. And I also see that it's in the NR at 5.5.4. Very helpful!
Am I correct in assuming that (phrasing)slurs are bezier curves, and thus
the four control points listed for \shape behave the way bezier-curve
control points do?

Thanks again,

A
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