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RE: Slurs across system breaks are not good


From: James Lowe
Subject: RE: Slurs across system breaks are not good
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:14:59 +0000

Hello,
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From: address@hidden address@hidden on behalf of MusFelix address@hidden
Sent: 24 June 2011 13:21
To: address@hidden
Subject: Slurs across system breaks are not good

I see that there are some older messages complaining about the way Lilypond
handles slurs going across system breaks.  I thought I would add my voice,
since this is a very common thing occurrence, and the fact that it is
handled so poorly while other less common issues are handled well is rather
shabby.

My main complaints are two:

1.  The slur BEFORE the break should not have such a steep slope.  If a the
slur goes from a C to the same C , the slur should be horizontal.  And if
the slur goes to a higher or lower note, the slope should _slightly_
indicate this.  As of right now, it droops down in a meaningless fashion.

2.  The slur AFTER the break should not begin after the clef but after the
key signature (if there is one).  It too should only slightly indicate the
direction (no weird sloping), and be more or less horizontal.

Does this not bother anyone else?  Can't this be fixed?

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Oh I am sure it can be fixed and yes it does bother others too.

We even have a bug report for it here:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=379

Actually we have a fair few other slur bug reports

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=2&q=slurs&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Stars+Owner+Patch+Summary&sort=&x=type&y=priority&cells=tiles&mode=grid

So if you have any programmatical experience and would like to help with one of 
the other developers who could guide you into ways of helping to fix this (and 
any of the others) I know many would be gratefully appreciative.

If not you can still help the project

http://lilypond.org/help-us.html

Regards

James






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