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

[Robert Blackstone]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your clarification. 
My problem is: How does one know at which moment something, for example a slur, 
or the call for the grob "slur",  is started? A case in point is \arpeggio. 
Naively one may think this command has to be placed before the notes, not 
after. Wrong! No idea why.
I realise that my intuition is sometimes correct, or that up till now I've just 
got away with my mistakes.

Maybe rules, general and/or specific, concerning the placement of commands, 
like \override and \tweak, can be found somewhere in the documentation, but so 
far I have not seen any.

Best regards,

Robert

 
On 29 Jan 2017, at 12:13 , Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 11:57 +0100, Robert Blackstone wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I think you may not be aware that the word "moment" here is being used
> as a LilyPond-specific technical term - meaning something like "the
> particular time in the course of the music". As David explains it does
> not specify a place in the syntax, but the place you choose must be at
> the correct "moment" (? and syntactically earlier?).
> 
> Richard
> corrections to my understanding welcome!
> 
>