Re: Slur collision with polyphonic music

[Mats Bengtsson]

The most reasonable solution would be to move the slurs to
begin at the tip of the stem instead of starting close to the note head
in these situations.

The intuitive approach to handle these situations would be to set
the avoid-slur property on stems and note heads, but clearly it doesn't
work here. Slurs already  avoid note heads and stems in their own voice,
but as your example shows, there is no collision avoidance between slurs
in one voice and note heads/stems in other voices.

In version 2.2 and earlier, we used to have a property called 
attachment, so you
for example could specify
\override Slur #'attachment = #(stem . stem)
to make the slur start at the end of the stem. Then, the slur 
implementation was
completely rewritten and the set of available properties was changed.
Your example illustrates that the attachment property might still be useful
(at least waiting for the ultimate collision avoidance algorithm to be 
implemented).
Currently, what you can do is to manually set the absolute vertical 
position of the
end points of the slur, for example
\once \override Slur #'positions = #'(2.5 . 4.0) g,2( e')
but this is a very tedious job.

   /Mats

Zoltán Selyem wrote:
> %% Though I have no idea where and how to place these slurs
> %% according to classical typographical rules...
>
> %% Slurs collide with polyphonic music
> %% In the last measure the lower slur points to the wrong note
>
> \version "2.11.21"
> \paper{ ragged-right=##t }
> \relative g' {
>   \voiceOne
>   <<
>   {
>     g2( e') | c( g) | e'( e,) | e'2.( e,4) |
>   }
>   \new Voice{ \voiceTwo
>     c'2( g) | g( c) | g4 a b c | g( g g g') |
>   }
>   >>
>   \oneVoice
> }
>
>
>
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