Re: Stemless music with slurs

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
>> Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>>If you want to remove the stems completely but not the engraver, it should
>>>work to set
>>>\override Staff.Stem #'print-function = ##f
>>>
>>>Wait a second, the above solution is for version 2.6 and you are using
>>>version 2.7.14. Then I hope that the following works instead:
>>>\override Staff.Stem #'stencil = ##f
>>>
>> Godd idea, but it doesn't work in practice.  The stems are gone, but
>> slurs still avoid them as if they were there, probably due to the same
>> code in slur-scoring.cc.
>
> Try setting #'length to 0 too.

Better and better.  But the shorter slurs now look very odd.  See, for
example, the first two instances.  Note: I am not specifically
requesting support to make this better.  In the best case, I will
achieve enough understanding of the code to make this work in a truely
stemless manner.

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(address@hidden)