Re: many users don't know about \shape

[Thomas Morley]

2013/5/10 Alberto Simões <address@hidden>:
>
>
> On 10/05/13 14:29, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2013/5/10 Alberto Simões <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/05/13 14:17, Urs Liska wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 10.05.2013 15:15, schrieb Alberto Simões:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>              The snippet in
>>>>>>>              http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/__Snippet?id=748
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And unfortunately it doesn't work pretty well on cross-staff slurs.
>>>>> Trying to do it manually, then.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what you actually need, but have you tried using \shape ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Basically the slur is crossing some notes I did not want.
>>> Didn't know about \shape. Will try, thank you :)
>>
>>
>> I'm wondering whether we should advertise \shape more.  It's
>> tremendously helpful, and yet despite it had been added ~1 year ago
>> (IIRC) many users don't know about it.
>
>
> But it doesn't seem easy to use :D
>
>     [...]
>     ees8[( d] c4) ~ |
>     \shape #'((0.7 . -0.4) (0.5 . -0.4) (0.3 . -0.3) (0 . -0.2)) Slur
>     c2( | \change Staff ="lower" \stemUp c2)  \change Staff="upper"|
>
> I was expecting this \shape to affect the slur that starts on c2, on last
> line. But I get this error instead :-S
>
>
> piano+voz.ly:105:11: error: wrong type for argument 1.  Expecting string,
> found ((0.7 . -0.4) (0.5 . -0.4) (0.3 . -0.3) (0 . -0.2))
>     \shape
>            #'((0.7 . -0.4) (0.5 . -0.4) (0.3 . -0.3) (0 . -0.2)) Slur
> piano+voz.ly:105:65: error: wrong type for argument 2.  Expecting list,
> found "Slur"
>     \shape #'((0.7 . -0.4) (0.5 . -0.4) (0.3 . -0.3) (0 . -0.2))
>                                                                  Slur
>
> Will continue trying to find out what is going on. :)
>
> Thank you
> Alberto
>
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Please, post your version, _every_ time.

The \shape-syntax was changed somewhere in 2.17.


-Harm