Re: cross-voice slurs

[David Kastrup]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:

> On 09/11/13 11:10, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>> Hmm.  Good question.  Maybe it could be attached to NoteHeads, not 
>> NoteColumns?
>> (As i understand it, the problem with attachments results from the
>> fact that slurs are attached to notecolumns (the bound of the slur
>> spanner is the NoteColumn), and at staff-level the NoteColumns from
>> different voices are joined which makes them not specific enough.
>> However, if the bound was the notehead, the information should remain
>> specific enough).
>
> I'd wondered for quite some time whether it would be possible to give
> slur beginnings and endings some kind of identifier, so that one could
> mark the beginning of a specific slur in one part, the end of it in
> another, and have it Just Work; something like,
>
>     partI = { c4 d("foo" r2 }
>
>     partII = { r2 e)"foo" }
>
> ... but I'd assumed that this kind of thing must have already been
> considered and rejected.  (N.B. the particular notation chosen here is
> just for illustration, not a serious suggestion.)

There is a regression test which does this.  But this does not address
the problem of relating the slur ends with the right notes/notecolumns.

-- 
David Kastrup