Re: Ugly collision between broken Slur and PhrasingSlur

[Urs Liska]

Am 03.08.2011 06:07, schrieb Colin Campbell:
> On 11-08-02 10:05 AM, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > following the late discussions on bug- and -user, I stumbled over an 
> > ugly collision between a phrasingSlur and a Slur at the beginning of 
> > a second staff. Actually the phrasing slur tries to escape the slur 
> > but does this in a spectacular way - while the collision is still there:
> >
> > \version "2.15.5"
> >
> > \relative a'
> > {
> >   \key d \major
> >   \time 2/2
> >   \clef treble
> >
> >    a2.\(( d8[ cis] | \break
> >    b2 cis4) b\) | \break
> >
> >    a2.\((\p d8[ cis] | \break
> >    b2.) cis4\) | \break
> >
> > }
> >
> > The breaks are needed because in the real example there are many 
> > notes in the piano ...
> > In lines 1 and 2 it is only an ugly collision (probably an instance 
> > of issue #427?)
> > but lines 3 and 4 (when the slur ends on the first note after the 
> > line break) are really crazy and mess up the page layout of my music 
> > completely.
> >
> > Is this just issue #427 or should one add a new issue?
> > If not, what about the fact that #427 is abandonde?
> > I think this is quite an embarassing output.
> >
> > Best
> > Ur
>
> It certainly does look like issue 427, Urs, although the slur in bar 4 
> is rather remarkable!  The issue is still open, but a proposed patch 
> was marked abandoned in February, as the developer was no longer 
> working on the issue. Issue 163 is also quite similar, and Mike 
> Solomon has a patch in progress which looks like it should fix the 
> problem.
Thanks for the info, Colin.
I think this is quite right, and also quite promising. Wouldn't be the 
first time I stumble over an issue which is about to be solved. 
(Although admittely I also stumble over issues that have lived as 
"postponed" for a long time ...)

Best
Urs
> Cheers,
> Colin Campbell
> Bug Squad