Re: Stemless music with slurs

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Juergen Reuter <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's what my approach, as described, yields (see attachment).

That does, indeed, look very nice.  I will probably move to your
solution until a better one comes along.  Thank you very much.

> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
>
>> 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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