Re: New slur/tie behaviour

[Bec and John Silva]

Hi Henrik,

It does seem that maybe trying to accommodate everyone's preference is a lost cause. Customisability should definitely be present.

However, ties/slurs should "function" first and look beautiful second! :) With 2.7.7 I've been forced to not avoid some problems because they are too serious (not in the screenshots I sent previously). For instance, where a tie is in the same space in the staff as the note but slurs on adjacent notes are (very attractively) going over the notes - this creates a visually unbalanced look, and worse the tie is likely to go unnoticed.

I think the things I've noticed, and the screenshots you posted, definitely expose things that need to be fixed.

- John

I have been following this discussion with interest and I have a few

thoughts. I don't think it is possible to accomodate all styles and

personal preferences when it comes to ties which I think this thread is

proof of. I am sure the sponsored rewrite included in 2.7.7 led to a

better situation for some (maybe all) users, but in the score I'm

currently working on it lead to more collisions and less

consistency (see the attached .png's). 

Now, I'm _not_ complaining, I'm

OK with it. In the music that I'm working with I'm used to having to

spend much time figuring out, sometimes unorthodox ways of notating

things. So, the only thing I need is a good way of manually altering the

defaults and this is what the tie-configuration property does. Another

suggestion could be to allow for altering the defaults

globally and thus make it possible for users to accomodate the tie

behaviour to the set of rules that works for them.