RE: Slur across voices without taking time with hidden notes

[Nick Payne]

Ok, thanks, I now can find the references.

To make life easier for myself when searching the documentation I just
created a PDF portfolio from the PDF version of all the docs, as once the
portfolio has been indexed it makes searching across all the documents
extremely easy.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl D. Sorensen [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2009 23:45
> To: Nick Payne; James E. Bailey
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Slur across voices without taking time with hidden notes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/13/09 3:10 AM, "Nick Payne" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >
> > BTW, extra-offset is not documented as one of the slur settings in
> the
> > Internals Reference. I found it in a couple of snippets in the
> repository.
> 
> Actually, it is.  If you go to the Slurs page in the Internals
> Reference,
> you will see that there are three different interfaces to slurs:
> spanner-interface, slur-interface, and grob-interface.
> 
> grob-interface lists the extra-offset property.  This means that
> extra-offset applies to Slurs.
> 
> >
> > There also seem to be inconsistencies or omissions in the
> documentation ­ eg
> >  the PhrasingSlur #¹positions property is given as an example in the
> Learning
> > Manual but is not mentioned as one of the PhrasingSlur settings in
> the
> > Internals Reference.
> 
> Again, going to the PhrasingSlur page in the Internals Reference
> (3.1.78), a
> PhrasingSlur has the same three interfaces as a Slur.  Clicking on the
> slur-interface link, you find that the positions property is part of
> the
> slur-interface, and thus applies to both PhrasingSlurs and Slurs.
> 
> I'm pointing this out, because it can be a bit daunting getting used to
> the
> Internals Reference.  It's easy to not know how to use it.