Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

[Jonathan Kulp]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi all you Slur-happy people,
>
> 1. Kudos to Mark for his amazing and generous contributions!

+1.  Wow!

> 2. Does it (now) bother anyone else that dashed slurs do not look like 
> real slurs? I guess I always assumed — without visually confirming, 
> obviously — that dashed slurs were real slurs (that thickened and 
> tapered, etc.) with cutouts; I now see that dashed "slurs" are simply 
> dashed lines (of invariant thickness) which curve along the path that a 
> slur would take between two notes. What is standard engraving practice 
> when it comes to such things?
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.

The publisher of my guitar music (Les Productions D'Oz in Quebec, 
Canada) uses dashed slurs like these with invariant thickness to 
indicate  pull-offs and hammer-ons, and uses regular slur markings for 
phrase slurs.  I can't say that I've noticed dashed slurs in other 
places before.  Sylvain (the editor at D'Oz) always uses these 
dashed-line things, though.  It probably would look nicer if they 
thickened in the middle and tapered at the ends. :)

Jon

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