Re: Having problems with phrasing and ties combined

[David Kastrup]

Paul Hodges <pwh@cassland.org> writes:

> It's not causing your problem, but why use phrasing slurs:  " \("  "\)?  
> Plain slurs:  "("  ")" are that bit easier to write and read.  They are, 
> as far as I know, identical in behaviour

They aren't.  They are typographically outward from normal slurs and are
played differently, something which is quite relevant in the MIDI
rendition.

> - I think phrasing slurs were simply introduced to get over the
> restriction that slurs cannot be nested in a voice.

They can, by identifying the corresponding slurs, for example by
preceding them with \=1 and \=2, respectively.

-- 
David Kastrup