Re: Cross-staff phrase marks

[Carl Sorensen]

On 2/17/16 10:31 AM, "Kieren MacMillan" <address@hidden>
wrote:

>Hi Simon,
>
>>> chaining, [composite] slurs
>> There¹s no such thing, and it sounds like a nightmare ;-)
>
>Oh, I agree it would be a nightmareŠ
>
>But ³there¹s no such thing² just isn¹t true: the snippet below shows how
>to get two separate slurs covering the same set of notes, and from there,
>making a ³composite slur² would be just a matter of [lots and lots of
>painful, trial-and-error, and almost certainly fragile] shaping work.

Slurs are *not* bezier curves; they are bezier sandwiches (meaning they
have an upper and lower bezier curve, with common endpoints.  We would
need to define a composite bezier sandwich in order to develop proper
composite curves.

Of course, that could be done.

Carl