Re: tuplet slurs

[David Nalesnik]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:47 PM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:43 PM, David Nalesnik
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> For voices with lyrics it is common to put triplet indications
>>>>> always above the staff, using the following rules.
>>>>>
>>>>>   . stems up or down, no beam: as usual (i.e., a number and a
>>>>>      bracket at the top, as if using \tupletUp)
>>>>>
>>>>>    . stems up, with beam: as usual (i.e., a number over the beam)
>>>>>
>>>>> The last case, however, is unusual:
>>>>>
>>>>>    . stem down, with beam: a number and a *slur* at the top.
>>>
>>> BTW, these rules can be found in the vocal score of `Arabella' (by
>>> Richard Strauss), for example.
>>>
>>>> It strikes me that I've seen code somewhere that uses slurs instead of
>>>> brackets.  I find this:
>>>> http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=1658.0
>>>
>>> Yes, I can remember that also – very nice!
>>>
>>>> The results look great, but of course, the slur is broken.  It might
>>>> not be hard to modify that routine to do what you want..
>>>
>>> Oh, I actually don't really care whether the slur is broken or not.
>>> I'm rather interested in having a lilypond option to make it behave
>>> (i.e., differentiate between tuplet slur and tuplet brackets) as
>>> outlined above.
>>
>> I've attached a patch which permits tuplets with slurs instead of
>> brackets.  Sorry that you have to build LilyPond to use it.
>>
>> It's pretty rough.  For one thing, the slur shapes for inclined slurs
>> are probably not ideal.
>>
>> To get the bowed-tuplets, you set TupletBracket.tuplet-slur to #t.
>>
>> You can move the slur closer/further from the number by setting
>> TupletNumber.padding to the value you'd like (default: 0.3).  Don't
>> know what other
>> consequences there might be when setting TupletNumber.padding, but I
>> don't want to add more properties unless it's really necessary.
>>
>> To get the behavior you want, check the example file.  There is a
>> Scheme function which
>> should put your rules into effect.
>>

The attached is better structured and it supports 'shorten-pair for the slurs.

(Note that you can also set dash-definition)

David

0001-Allow-slurs-instead-of-brackets-with-tuplets.patch
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