Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

[David Kastrup]

Robert Blackstone <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear all,
> In some passages like the one shown in the ME the composer (long dead)
> wants a slur positioned above the beam.
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> {\clef "treble" \key b \minor \time 3/8
> \stemUp <g' e''>8  ( [ g''8 ) \slurUp  <d'' b''>8 ] | % 137
> \stemUp <g' e''>8  \( [ g''8 \) \phrasingSlurUp  <d'' b''>8 ] | % 137
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> As one can see, the usual tools don't work here and I have not been
> able to find something that does work.
>
> Can anyone help me?

You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is _started_, not when it
already had ended.

In this case this means either writing \slurUp/\phrasingSlurUp together
with the respective \stemUp (usually all of those would rather be \once
\whateverUp ).  Or you just put ^ before the slur in question to make it
point upwards.

-- 
David Kastrup