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

[Robert Blackstone]

Hi David,

Ref.: "You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is _started_, not when it already had ended." That sounds perfectly logical but when I place \slurUp before the ( or \( I get the error message "error: syntax error, unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER" No idea why.

But your advice is very helpful. Thanks in particular for \once \whateverUp. It will  save me a lot of typing. 

Best regards,

Robert Blackstone

On 29 Jan 2017, at 10:47 , David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

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.

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{\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
}
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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