There's a whole lot one could say about this. I'll throw out a few random comments.
You've used Type K postscript slurs. The story would be different with font-based. There are a gazillion choices you need to make in designing ties and slurs that cross linebreaks. To get the "why" of the postscript slur defaults, you'd need to get an answer from Stanislaus Kneifl. The one you like is a tie while the one you don't like is 3 slurs. You didn't say, but I'm guessing you don't like the short length of the lower two slurs after the linebreak. Personally, I don't like the appearance of the long closing tie segment. This is a "half tie" which Type K uses by default after line breaks. They can be shut off with \nohalfties, which PMX automatically issues (but there is a global option to stop it from cancelling half ties). PMX has a global option Apl which enables full control over the starting and ending positions and curvature of both segments of line breaking type K slurs and ties, if you don't like the defaults. (Internally, it breaks them into two separate ties or slurs. If such special tweaks are then issued somewhere besides at a linebreak, they are ignored.) So for example if the second segment of a linebreaking slur starts too far to the right (like in your example), with PMX you can easily move it to the left. End of advertisement. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 11:55 PM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive <[email protected]> > Subject: [Tex-music] Ties across lines > > Does anybody know why they are sometimes nice as line 2 and somtimes > ugly as line 3? > > Regards > -- > Jean-Pierre Coulon ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
