4th order bezier bows

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> The slurs of lilypond are ugly - they are not "tense" enough.
> I have done some simple by-hand-testing and found out that 4th order
> bezier bows will be enough to do nice curves.

Nice to see someone getting hands dirty with code :-)

> I know no postscript at all, and I couldn't find where in the sources
> you define the postscript commands for drawing 3rd order bezier bows.

The postscript routine is called draw_bezier_sandwich
(music-drawing-routines.ps), postscript code to draw a bezier looks
like

        0 0 moveto
        c1x c1y c2x c2y endx endy curveto

        stroke

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