Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-22 Thread James
James On 22 April 2012 04:50, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: At Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:24:50 +0100, James wrote: If you can come up with a simple example, we (or you even) could add it to the LilyPond snippet repository Like this, perhaps? I can add it if this looks OK. I guess - I

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-21 Thread James Harkins
At Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:31:20 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi James, On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:32 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe a simple question: Is there a way to flatten the curve of a tie that is as easy as overriding ratio for slurs? You can override

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-21 Thread James
James, On 21 April 2012 07:51, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: At Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:31:20 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi James, On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:32 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote:     Maybe a simple question: Is there a way to flatten the curve of a tie

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-21 Thread James Harkins
At Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:24:50 +0100, James wrote: If you can come up with a simple example, we (or you even) could add it to the LilyPond snippet repository Like this, perhaps? I can add it if this looks OK. \version 2.15.36 \include english.ly \relative c'' { % normal tie d4 ~ % Longer

Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-20 Thread James Harkins
Maybe a simple question: Is there a way to flatten the curve of a tie that is as easy as overriding ratio for slurs? I found control-points and this does change the tie's shape. But, I don't need to modify the x-extent, only the y-extent. It looks to me as if overriding the control points

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-20 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi James, On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:32 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe a simple question: Is there a way to flatten the curve of a tie that is as easy as overriding ratio for slurs? You can override 'ratio for ties too: \override Tie #'details #'ratio = #0.2 Another

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-20 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, Oops--should have included the version. I'm using 2.15.37. With 2.14.2 and before you need the dollar sign: shapeTie = #(define-music-function (parser location offsets) (list?) #{ \once \override Tie #'control-points = #(alter-curve $offsets) #}) -David

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-20 Thread David Kastrup
David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Oops--should have included the version.  I'm using 2.15.37.  With 2.14.2 and before you need the dollar sign: High time we get 2.16 out. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list