Werner Icking wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 11:17:43 +0100
> > From: Christian Mondrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Rick Kavinoky wrote:
> >
> > > In Scottish fiddle tunes there is a "straight slur": a straight line
> > > instead of a curved line, placed the same as a standard slur.
> > >
> > > Is there some way to create this using musixtex?
> >
> > I'm also interested in this as straight lines are needed to indicate
> > ligatures in modern transcriptions of music written in mensural notation.
> > There is, however, the difference from the fiddle signs that the ligature
> > must be indicated by brackets, i.e. the straight lines must be angled.
>
> In a private discussion with Christian Mondrup we found that MusiXTeX's
> \ovbkt and \unbkt is what he was looking for ;-)
>
> Maybe that \ovbkt and \unbkt may help Rick Kavinoky, too, or at least
> \varline which is the basis for the two others.
>
> -- Werner
I essentially asked the same question some time back, and got
essentially the same answers. There is a need for straight slurs in
classical guitar scores (glissandos or else sliding a finger along a
string without sounding). I temporarily solved the problem using
\varline, but it is not very satisfactory. First of all, it's much
harder to get it right than a slur since one has to adjust numerical
parameters for it to be placed correctly, something the slur macros do
automatically. Second, the line place by \varline is too thin. This can
probably be gotten around by placing two practically on top of each
other, but I haven't yet tried this. In any case all of this is a hack.
True straight slurs that work exactly as curved ones are sadly needed.
George Svetlichny
