Re: reference for well-shaped slurs

2018-06-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 12.06.2018 04:20, Mason Hock wrote: Since you say that you use \shapeII frequently, I wonder if you ever find that \shapeII creates an upside-down slur like in the first example of mt previous message, or that it sometimes causes systems to appear on top of each oth er, as below? Are

Re: reference for well-shaped slurs

2018-06-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.06.2018 um 11:23 schrieb foxfanfare: Dummy question: what is the difference in using \shape or \shapeII ? \shape is a function that has been included into LilyPond at one point, so it is just available (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/modifying-shapes).

Re: reference for well-shaped slurs

2018-06-12 Thread foxfanfare
Dummy question: what is the difference in using \shape or \shapeII ? -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: reference for well-shaped slurs

2018-06-11 Thread Mason Hock
Thanks for your response, Andrew. Since you say that you use \shapeII frequently, I wonder if you ever find that \shapeII creates an upside-down slur like in the first example of mt previous message, or that it sometimes causes systems to appear on top of each oth er, as below? Are these

Re: reference for well-shaped slurs

2018-06-11 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Mason, I use \shapeII extensively. I think the point about engraving is that while rules based, it is an art, and the result depends on the skill and good taste of the user. There is no definitive 'good slur'. The function therefore has two uses, one to fix lilypond slurs that are not

reference for well-shaped slurs

2018-06-11 Thread Mason Hock
\shapeII works very well for tweaking ugly slurs. The only problem is that, while it is easy to identify "bad" slurs, I find it difficult to determine what makes a slur "good." It seems that the more time I spend tweaking a slur the more I overthink it and the less sure I am of how it should