Re: moving slur attachment points globally

[Urs Liska]

Am 17.02.2016 um 13:32 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>>> it is hard to guess which cases you are trying to cover or not.
>> Essentially all of them (this is for a stylesheet, which intends to
>> mimic an existing publishing house style). Which is why including any
>> arbitrary example(s) in my original post made — and still makes — no
>> sense to me.
>>
>> But here goes:
>>
>>     \score { { c'4( e' g'2) } }
>>
>> As I said in the original post, I would like the slur to start at the
>> “4:30” position of the c’, and end at the “7:30” position of the
>> g’.
> Why?  Without answering that question it is not clear whether any future
> changes in the slur code might thwart the intention or not.

Well, Kieren *did* explicitly state that he wants LilyPond to engrave
according to the engraving rules of a given publishing house. Or, put
more generally, for a given context he needs to change LilyPond's
default appearance with regard to slur attachment.

>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
> Shrug.  I don't see that my answer would not have applied here.
>
>     \score { { <c'(>4 e' <g')>2 } }
>
> looks like described.  Not optimally so, admittedly.  This code is
> obviously slated for improvement, but unless we get to know the
> _rationale_ for your desire, it's not possible to tell whether such
> improvements will run counter to it.
>

I think the rationale is very clear, and also the desired approach:
determine some properties that can be overridden so the slur decides to
be attached differently than LilyPond's default decision.

Urs