Re: [TeX-music] Slurs Type K

[Stanislav Kneifl]

Hi Don and all,

The thickness is determined in psslurs.pro according to the slur length:

    drawseg
    1 VS                    % first curve
    drawseg  
    -2 VS                    % second curve
    drawseg
    x2 20 AR gt {        % if the slur is longer than 20 pt, draw third curve
        3 VS
        drawseg
    } if
    x2 50 AR gt {        % if the slur is longer than 50 pt, draw fourth curve
        -4 VS
        drawseg
    } if
    x2 80 AR gt {        % if the slur is longer than 80 pt, draw fifth curve
        5 VS
        drawseg
    } if

You can experiment commenting out the
x2 .. AR gt {
and corresponding
} if
lines, or changing the 20, 50, and 80 to other values.

If you get some aesthetically better results than me, send me your values.

Stanislav.

Don Simons wrote:

Christof Biebricher wrote

  

I work on improving older typesets. Because the
Kneifl-type (pmx: Ap) ties look much better and cause less interference
with notes or beams, I chose them. However, they have a setback;
If the notes to be tied are close, the tie gets reduced
to an almost invisible little hook. If a line break separates
the tie, the end of the tie is also nearly invisible. Of course,
there is a remedy: simply convert those ties to slurs which come
out too short. This turned out in some cases to be
a lot of repair and I wonder whether it is possible to
introduce a lower bound into the tie length-calculating algorithm.

    

In PMX there is a partial remedy, introduced in version 2.401:
"Suboption for Type K postscript ties, activated by Apl, to (a) change first
part of a linebreak ties to have same shape as normal ties, and (b) move
start of second part of linebreak ties a little to the left" (Quoted from
the list of changes in the beta version,
http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/pmx/pmxbeta.html ). This is
a global option that only needs to be invoked once in the entire PMX source.

For non-linebreak slurs and ties, PMX has long offered case-by-case
adjustments of the end positions, but the vertical adjustments are currently
limited to integral numbers of \internote. It looks like I could program PMX
to use \pstieraise to get around that restriction. Also, I personally would
prefer that very short slurs and ties were thicker. Is there any way for a
user (or PMX) to control the thickness?

--Don Simons

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