Michael, Not sure how Gould became the be all and end all of music engraving. My position is readability. . In your snippet I prefer the marcato to be above the note. Placed next to the head it competes with the head for my vision.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Michael Seifert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020 7:31 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Articulation mark & slur placement Well, if we’re doing everything the way Elaine Gould wants us to, then: - articulation should go generally go next to the notehead, not next to the stem; but - the marcato mark usually goes above the staff, regardless of stem direction. (Note: not directly above the stemm, but above the staff). So one could fix the problem for up-stemmed notes simply by putting the marcato accent above the staff (and tweaking its vertical placement.) But the problem would remain for the same snippet an octave higher, with down-stemmed notes. Interestingly, the accent mark > *does* behave the way I want it to in the code below. Effectively, I want the marcato mark (and the “staccato wedge”) to behave like the accent mark in the code below, rather than behaving like the staccato or tenuto marks. \relative c' { d'4-^( e4 f4-.) r4 d4->( e4 f4-.) r4 d4-.( e4 f4-.) r4 d4--( e4 f4-.) r4 d4-!( e4 f4-.) r4 } Mike Seifert > On Dec 19, 2020, at 7:49 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike > > Any requirement that the marcato to be below the note? > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: lilypond-user > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Michael Seifert > Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 3:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Articulation mark & slur placement > > The following code > > \relative c' { > d4-^( e4 f4-.) r4 > } > > produces a slur with all articulation marks “inside” the slur. Typically, > however, articulation marks are supposed to go “outside” the first note of a > slur: “Usually, only tenuto lines and staccato marks may go inside of the > first and the last notes of a slur.” (“Behind Bars”, p. 121) If we follow > this guideline in the excerpt above, the endpoint of the slur should be > closer to the notehead than the marcato accent is. The staccato mark, on the > other hand, is correctly placed. > > Is there a way to make it so that the “usual” placement occurs by default? > Or do I need to tweak this manually for each articulation mark (other than > staccato and tenuto) that begins a phrase? > > Mike Seifert >
