Re: Shifting ties horizontally

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 06:39 -0600, David Nalesnik wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Richard Shann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 14:15 -0600, David Nalesnik wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
....
>         
>         Is that to say that shape-tie.ly is now redundant? The thread
>         continued
>         as if it were still needed...
> 
> 
> Yes, \shape covers the functionality of \shapeTie and can be used for
> any curve that is specified by control points: Slur, PhrasingSlur,
> RepeatTie, and LaissezVibrerTie, in addition to Tie.

That's really good news as I am planning to write a graphical routine to
create these shapes over the typeset output using the mouse to drag
control points and output the needed LilyPond (this is from within
Denemo, but it would be possible to use it just to generate the LilyPond
syntax for re-insertion into a hand-written LilyPond score).

Richard