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Re: Slurs without Stems (Issue #3760)
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: Slurs without Stems (Issue #3760) |
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Thu, 5 Jan 2023 23:40:35 +0100 |
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 8:09 PM Dan Eble <dan@lyric.works> wrote:
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> Should slurs require Stem_engraver?
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> No: https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/3760#note_339794300
> Yes:
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1800#note_1227831830
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> I'm looking for some input from old-timers to help decide this so I can avoid
> wasting more time on broken or unacceptable solutions.
I have no definite opinion either, and I created this mess ;-)
In general, the formatting code tries to be lenient when Grobs are
missing, and looks for fallbacks. This means that adding some support
for finding the extremal head without a stem is fine, albeit that not
all formatting may turn out correctly.
In retrospect, I don't know if the NoteColumn grob has been a great
idea: as time progressed, the original function of NoteColumn (provide
the extents of a notehead + stem + flag) has been usurped by various
more sophisticated mechanisms.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwenn@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen