Re: Avoiding slur collision with other voice

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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On Montag, 6. April 2009 09:38:42 Mark Polesky wrote:
> Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > The 'slurs' in the hand-written score look as if they are
> > really triplet indicators, with the '3' omitted from the
> > later ones.
>
> Trevor is right to discriminate between slurs and tuplet
> indicators. Ted Ross (1970) discusses the use of the
> small slur but makes clear that it must be small enough
> to avoid confusing it with a slur (see attached png).
[...]
> Perhaps LilyPond could implement a tuplet slur as an
> alternative to the bracket, provided it's small enough?
> Would anybody want that? 

Yes, I would need it for MusicXML support. See the 
‘23b-Tuplets-Styles.ly’  test case on 
http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/input/regression/musicxml/collated-files.html#t_g23-_002e_002e_002e-Triplets-Tuplets

Cheers,
Reinhold

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