Re: Is this ugly?

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Urs Liska wrote:

> Am 03.12.2013 10:30, schrieb Janek Warchoł:
> > 2013/12/3 Karol Majewski <address@hidden>:
> > > \version "2.17.96"
> > >
> > > {
> > >   a'8 ( b'4. ) r2
> > > }
> > >
> > > Look at the slur. It goes through stem and flag. Shouldn't it start above 
> the stem? Not sure..
> > Imo this is ugly, but i'm not sure how it should look like...
> > Janek
> I don't _know_ either, but I think to become acceptable it would 
> definitely need more horizontal space between.

Don't know if it is a good solution, but would it be possible for LilyPond 
to not really avoid similar collisions, but by creating small gaps in a 
slur or tie where it crosses other objects like stems and beams?

I remember I have seen something like that in (probably) an older 
hand-engraved score. I will try to find the example in my books, or create 
an example with some graphics editing.

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MT