Re: Chords and slurs

[Han-Wen]

address@hidden writes:
> Ok, since I am dealing with quarter notes this is not a problem: your code
> does exactly what I want. But why do you say the construct does not make
> sense? In piano music there are a lot of examples like the one above.

Can you send me some scans of those, please?  

> BTW, I was thinking of a similar issue about multiple slurs. PMX let you
> to nest slurs by assigning a ordinal number to each of them. I do not
> remember the exact syntax, but by writing it "lilypondlishly" it would be:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> c(1 d e(2 )2f g )1h
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Some music uses nested slurs (e.g. Brahms), so adding this feature could
> be quite useful for Lilypond.

actually nested slurs are supported, but slated for removal. Why don't
you use phrasing slurs?

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