Whaouh, what a powerfull tool. It'll go in my "favourite" in a minute. Looks amazing too me Brilliant job Janek. Thanks much. Cheers Pierre
2013/10/18 Janek Warchoł <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > \shape is an awesome function, indispensable for creating > publication-quality slurs. However, after using it 1107 times in a > recent project (this number is not a joke!), i came to the conclusion > that it's not perfect yet and it could use some improvements ;-) > > After several days of work i'm proud to present: > - ability to use input shorthands when specifying offsets with \shape, > - a version of \shape using polar coordinates. > > You can see the code in the attachment, and the output here: > > http://lilypond-stuff.1065243.n5.nabble.com/file/n5705619/shapeII-example.pdf > > http://lilypond-stuff.1065243.n5.nabble.com/file/n5705619/shape-polar-example.pdf > > I'd like to hear your opinions. Do you like it? Should it be added > to official LilyPond distribution? > > I've tested these changes myself and after a few dozen corrected slurs > i can say that they work well, although there is still room for > improvement - in particular, i could add more "modes" of specifying > control-points position (in addition to plain offsets and polar > coordinates), and merge everything into one function that would allow > to easily choose a different "mode" for each control-point. And, of > course, write some great documentation :-) > > I'd love to continue working on this, but i've run out of spare time > :-( Would anyone want to sponsor further development? Depending on > the amount of desired features, it would take 1-3 days of work, and > would cost $40-$120 (I'd also like to share the money with David > Nalesnik, who created the function in the first place and helped me > with these improvements). > > best, > Janek > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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