As it happens, I'm doing a 200 page string quartet at the moment and every
page and every part is full of slurs like this, that end and start on a
single note. In this case it is to indicate the pulsing of the phrase and
repeated notes in particular - and in case this is obscure, it is mentioned
in the performance notes in the preface.

It's a valid use case, and very handy. What constitutes a 'valid' musical
score is a very fraught question. In the case of lilypond, it's Common Era
music mostly. But I do New Complexity School music and that's equally
valid, even if not to universal taste. I am the first to confess that I do
not expect Lilypond to deal with my complex issues out of the box, but it
can be coaxed into doing a very fine job with enough Scheme functions.

I'd prefer the slurs to be a bit further apart also in this case.

Andrew
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