Re: Flat slurs

[Urs Liska]

Am 13.02.2017 um 12:25 schrieb Urs Liska:
> Hi all,
>
> today I stumbled over some code in LilyPond's code base that creates a
> bezier sandwich in Scheme. From this I was able to create a function
> that creates opening and closing half sandwiches and connect them with
> straight line beziers.
>
> With this function (in notation-snippets/shaping-bezier-curves in
> https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets) it is now possible to draw real
> flat slurs (see attachment). When I initially worked on multi-segment
> slurs they suffered from being thinned out at each inflection point.
>
> There will be some room for improvements and syntactic sugar (e.g. to
> simplify flat slurs or easily produce symmetric ones), but I'm already
> extremely happy with this?
>
> Best
> Urs

This is a more real-world (but not too fine-tuned) example where it's
clear that flat slurs can save lots of vertical space.

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