Re: slurs in polyphony and TabStaff problems

[Colin Hall]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 03:08:58AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Il 07/06/2012 11:21, address@hidden ha scritto:
> >
> >On 7 juin 2012, at 07:36, Federico Bruni wrote:
> > >
> > > The slur in TabStaff is really ugly.
> > > Tested with 2.15.40 packaged version
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Federico
> >
> > Hey Federico,
> >
> > It is and it isn't.  It's likely linked to the same underlying
> > problem, but the> > problem you identify above already exists in
> > 2.14.0.  My work on Stems and Flags exacerbated the problem for
> > certain slurs.
> >
> > The problem is that, around line 167 of lily/slur-scoring.cc,
> > there is not enough checking to see if the stems are printed on
> > the page.  As a result, ghosted stems are taken into account.
> >
> > Before I fix this, I'll need a bit of feedback from a guitar
> > player/enthusiast - could someone who knows tablature inside out
> > look at Federico's example and let me know how the slur should be
> > typeset (ideally w/ a PDF)?  Should these be treated more or less
> > like whole notes?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > MS
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I'm CCing lilypond-user, hoping that they will give you some
> feedback. I'm not expert in notation at all. All I can say is that
> slur should be closer to notes (see .svg file edited in Inkscape).

I've created an issue tracker for this report from Federico:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2595

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall