Re: Adding parenthesis around slurs or hairpins or whatever else

[Trent Johnston]

Hi Gianluca,

The method of putting parenthesis around slurs and ties.. is old
fashioned...

The most acceptable way is to either used a dotted slur or tie or dashed
slur or tie..

Lilypond can do these already...

\tieDotted \tieDashed and don't forget to use \tieSolid to go back to normal
ties.

again it's the same with slurs

\slurDashed, \slurDotted, \slurSolid to go back to normal slurs...

As for the other examples.. be careful when using editoral marks as this is
where copyright comes into play. These are the marks that make it a derived
work and an editor could hold copyright for that particular version of a
piece.

Also with editoral marks make sure that they are in style with the period...
editors in the late 19th early - 20th century were in a habit of placing
performance marks everywhere in both Baroque and Classical scores. These
performance marks are usually out of style with current research into
baroque and classical and early romantic period, performance practice.
Unless you have a good reason for adding the editoral marks I would leave
them out .. i.e. make an Urtext version.

Regards,

Trent

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gianluca D." <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:02 AM
Subject: Adding parenthesis around slurs or hairpins or whatever else


Hi everybody!

I'm trying to copy with Lilypond a nice sheet of music showing many
editorial
parenthesis around slurs, ties and hairpins.

In the attachments, you can see two examples of what I'm talking about.

Is there anyone who knows a general way to reproduce these expressions,
hopefully without dismantling Lilypond bit by bit? :P

I've already tried searching the archive and the regression-tests and
tips-and-tricks, but with no results, except for that dirty trick to make
dynamics surrounded by parenthesis ( which is a very very very dirty trick
because such dynamics are actually markups and so they will never align
properly with normal dynamics, but with changing all the default dynamic
padding properties etc etc... )

Thank you to everyone.

Gianluca D'Orazio




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