In the coming days I'll be looking into incorporating the postscript
slurs into PMX.  I haven't decided whether to make them an option, or to
replace the old slur macros and bitmapped slurs completely.  If they're
an option, I would do it with an "A" command up front (maybe "AP") and
then not require any other changes from the user except possibly if he
had used some of the more exotic midheight and curvature adjustments. 
If it's a complete replacement, then the user would not have to change
anything in old files.  I'd like to hear some comments to help me
decide.  Either way, I'd do my best to make old PMX files compatible. 
But it would be nice to settle this matter before I start programming.

Assuming we don't find any show-stopping problems with the slurs
themselves, one big issue is how they work in dviwin and other dvi
viewers.  In my initial tests they did not show up at all in dviwin. 
However I recall seeing something about "specials" in dviwin.  Does that
mean there is some way to tweak dviwin to display them?  I suspect not,
in which case one will need to use a real postscript viewer to see the
results.  For me this would pose no problem at all...I have fast
processors, dvips takes just seconds at most, and gsview works fine.

--Don Simons
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