Re: trouble with slur

[Trevor Daniels]

Anthony wrote Friday, September 26, 2008 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: trouble with slur


> > From: xpdf <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:29 PM
> > Subject: trouble with slur
> > To: address@hidden
> >
> >
> > I have troulble with slurs
> > http://images42.fotosik.pl/14/dd3d61e7764f8103.jpg
> > & my code.
> > A.
> >
> > Staff = \relative c {
> >       \clef bass
> >       \key a \major
> >       \time 4/4
> >       \set doubleSlurs = ##t
> >       < e ( cis' > 1 | < e cis' ) > 4 e cis a }
> >
> > Where is problem?
>
> The proper term for those is not a slur, but a tie.  Ties are made
> with a tilde symbol '~'.
>
> In your example you would write:
>   <e cis'>1 ~ | <e cis'>4
>
> I was going to write up a link to documentation about ties, but that
> strangely seems missing from the 2.11.60 docs that went up.  I see a
> section on "Curves" but only slurs are listed there with a link
> someplace about the "nestedness of curves and ties" but I can't find
> out if ties are mentioned elsewhere in those new docs. Strange.  Is
> that section somewhere else?

Yes.  Notation Reference section 1.2.1.4 Ties.  The
index to that manual also has several entries for
ties, including that one.


> -Anthony
>
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