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From: | David Nalesnik |
Subject: | Re: many users don't know about \shape |
Date: | Sun, 12 May 2013 06:35:39 -0500 |
Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:Hardly. It's slightly more benign against different amonuts of
> 2013/5/11 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>>> my experience (particularly with Fried project) shows that
>>> with regard to slurs and ties, LilyPond is very far from automated
>>> typesetting. If you want publication quality, you _have_ to tweak the
>>> output quite heavily - would you rather do this via setting
>>> control-points directly? Actually, \shape is quite close to the
>>> spirit of automated engraving, because if the layout changes slightly,
>>> \shape modifications usually "adapt" and still produce good results.
>>
>> Not if there is a change in line/page breaking.
>
> Sure, but it's still about a thousand times more reliable than
> overriding control-points directly.
stretching/shrinking,
but when the slur positioning algorithm changes,
relative changes to control points will give unpredictable results.
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