Furthermore, if you look at some well-typeset scores, you can
distinguish slurs and ties by shape (slurs should be more curved and
ties should not be higher than approx. 1,5 space). Also the musical
meaning of a slur and a tie between the same notes is differrent, not to
mention the tie
I have been using PMX for seven years, but confess to still basically being in
the dark about the difference between font-based s and t slurs. So I did
some systematic experiments.
Here is everything the PMX Reference Manual has to say on the topic.
With font-based slurs, t is equivalent to s
Dirk wrote:
Thus, t is indeed a poor brother of s, its only virtue being that
in one very
special case its use saves one some manual adjustment.
I suspect the original reason for the t slur was only because, before
labelled slurs, one needed two different slur symbols in the
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Dirk Laurie wrote:
I have been using PMX for seven years, but confess to still basically being in
the dark about the difference between font-based s and t slurs. So I did
some systematic experiments.
Here is everything the PMX Reference Manual has to say on the topic.
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