Re: Slurs between two pianos

[Thomas Morley]

2014-03-21 10:44 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm at a loss with the problem shown in the attachments.
>
> I intend to engrave a piece with two pianos (actually a piano and a
> synthesizer), where there are _many_ things going on between the two pianos.
> The first is having grace notes or acciaccaturas in the "other" piano.
>
> Writing it straightforwardly gives the attached image. When moving the slur
> engraver to the Score context (which is what I was suggested to do) there
> _is_ a difference (uncomment the \layougt definitions) but the result isn't
> really better.
>
> Of course I could start to tweak the slurs, but I don't think that is a good
> idea at all.
>
> Is there any way to make such cross-staff slurs behave better?
>
> Urs

Hi Urs,

you could experiment with the following commands

\once \override Slur #'details #'edge-attraction-factor = #100000
\once \override Slur #'details #'max-slope = #800
\once \override Slur #'minimum-length = #6

Though, further tweaking maybe necessary.

Cheers,
  Harm