Re: New slur/tie behaviour

[Henrik Frisk]

I agree with you, but it seems to me that the terms you use,
'functionality' and 'looks' got mixed up in this thread. With the latest
revision of 2.7.9 I think the functionality aspect is pretty close to
'good' as far as I can tell. 

/henrik

Bec and John Silva <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.
>