Here's another thing that would possibly be nice to implement. I've
just been typing my first piece of music which was in 4-voice, 2-staff
vocal style (SATB). If the top line (S) has any of the following
types of groups:
( a4 b a )
( a8 b )
and worst of all:
( a4 b8 c a4 )
(i.e., a slur with either >2 notes or containing barred notes), then
the up-slur which results looks dreadful. Yes, one could consider
changing it to a down slur, but that would not work if there are notes
in the A line which are too close to allow this. What would be nice
would be to have some mechanism, either automatic or a simple user
marking (such as (^ in place of ( ) to indicate that the slur should
be placed above the tails of the notes instead of by the heads. We
could have (_ to indicate that the slur should be lowered to below the
tails for the lower voices, and if things are made automatic, we could
have (= to indicate the normal position by the heads.
I know that it is possible to do things by using (+6 (or something
like it, don't remember offhand), but the frequency with which this
happens in the vocal pieces I've been writing makes the current
situation infuriating.
Any thoughts?
Julian
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