Re: Chords and slurs

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 21 June 2002 11.15, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > Three layers could be necessary.  You could easily have a grace note
> > group with a "slur" indicating which note its time value was from,
> > inside an actual slur, inside a phrasing "slur".  Grace notes should
> > always have "slur" marks, even though they were considered optional
> > in the last century.  It is bad practice to omit them, and it always
> > was, even when it was commonly done, which it is not anymore.
>
> Automatic slurring for grace notes; that sounds like a good idea, I
> can't remember seeing them without slurs.

In that case, however, it would be possible to be able to turn off automatic 
grace note slurring: I am working with a lot of manuscripts where there are 
no slurred graces, and I would like to keep it that way in order to best 
preserve the original.

Erik