Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-28 Thread tisimst
need to be vetted, but calculating the t-values for a single curve is quite fast. > This is an example of something that one would hope to benefit from if > LilyPond were to go to Cairo. > Like David, I'm not sure that using or not using Cairo is relevant for general use (i.e., for both tap

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-28 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > But the issue of non-uniform t along the length of the bezier curve is > a legitimate issue. I am looking into it to see if there are any > readily available solutions. > > This is an example of something that one would hope to benefit from if >

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 6/27/17 9:00 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Carl Sorensen" wrote: >On 6/27/17 6:00 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of tisimst" >

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 6/27/17 6:00 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of tisimst" wrote: >On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Kieren MacMillan [via Lilypond] < >ml+s1069038n20417...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> Take

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-27 Thread tisimst
d-style-dashed-slur.pdf> -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/True-Hand-engraved-Dashed-Slurs-tp204138p204177.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, >> Take my vote for having it as the default. > Excellent! At least that makes two of us ;-) (and Kieren, I believe). Yes. Thanks, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-27 Thread Noeck
Hi, Am 27.06.2017 um 22:34 schrieb tisimst: > Take my vote for having it as the default. It is just my gut feeling and nothing I could prove, but I see (at least) two use cases for dotted slurs: 1. The current default looks like what I would prefer for "optional slurs". I.e. in songs with two

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-27 Thread tisimst
t. > Excellent! At least that makes two of us ;-) (and Kieren, I believe). Best, Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/True-Hand-engraved-Dashed-Slurs-tp204138p204171.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 27.06.2017 22:15, tisimst wrote: How often are these split slurs used? I personally have never had a reason to use them, but I guess they must be used somewhere. They’re used in scientific editions e.g. if a slur is begun before the line break, but not continued after in the source. Any

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-27 Thread tisimst
48 % - dash-fraction = (d-t)/(d+g) = (0.12)/(0.48) = 0.25 oldSlurDashed = { \override Slur.thickness = 0 \override Slur.line-thickness = 1.6 \override Slur.dash-definition = #((0 1 0.25 0.48)) } %% Thanks, again! - Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 6/26/17 4:53 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Abraham Lee" wrote: >Greetings, Devs! > >I have always wondered why dashed slurs look the way they do, especially >when compared to the Barenreiter snippets

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-26 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Abraham Lee writes: > >> Greetings, Devs! >> >> I have always wondered why dashed slurs look the way they do, especially >> when compared to the Barenreiter snippets found in the essay. The current >> dashes look better than they

Re: True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-26 Thread David Kastrup
Abraham Lee writes: > Greetings, Devs! > > I have always wondered why dashed slurs look the way they do, especially > when compared to the Barenreiter snippets found in the essay. The current > dashes look better than they used to, but I still think they look a bit

True Hand-engraved Dashed Slurs

2017-06-26 Thread Abraham Lee
Greetings, Devs! I have always wondered why dashed slurs look the way they do, especially when compared to the Barenreiter snippets found in the essay. The current dashes look better than they used to, but I still think they look a bit odd compared to the fairly uniform thickness of the