Re: discrete slurs and ties

[Janek Warchoł]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Due to this marvellous video
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345o3Wu95Qo
>
> I have learned that short slurs and ties aren't engraved manually;
> instead, there are ready-to-use stamps.  In other words, since the
> number of such stamps is limited, tie and slur shapes become discrete
> if their length is below a certain threshold.
>
> Do we handle this similarly?  People can argue that this is an
> unnecessary limitation; lilypond can do a `better' job.  However, I'm
> not sure whether we should do better...

We should, definitely!
There are bad tie and slur shapes in Lily, but this is not due to not
having discrete lengths.

cheers,
Janek