Re: Is the slur too close to the top note?

[Knute Snortum]

Thanks Valentin and Kieren.  I didn't know you could control this kind
of thing with grob parameters!  I'll try out both suggestions.  I was
always using \shape to change the shape of the slur, but now I'll look
for parameters to tweak.

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Knute Snortum


On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 4:55 AM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:
>
> Hello Knute,
>
> this is a common issue with big slurs. To allow a better shape for the slur 
> increase the height limit of the slur (grob path Slur.height-limit).
>
> The problem here is that having a single height limit is not able to handle 
> each possible situation well. What we might try to do is to heuristically try 
> to guess a good value, depending on the length of the passage, the curve of 
> the note heads and such.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
>
> 11.02.2022 01:53:45 Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have what I guess is a request for comment on how close this slur is
> > to the topmost note.  If you engrave this input file...
> >
> > %%%
> > \version "2.23"
> > \language "english"
> >
> > \relative {
> >   \clef bass
> >   \key c \minor
> >   c,16( g' c d ef g c d  ef d c g ef d c g) |
> > }
> > %%%
> >
> > ...you get a slur that to my eye is much too close to the "ef" in the
> > third beat (see attached). What do others think?  Is this just a case
> > of "LilyPond sometimes doesn't render perfect slurs" or is there an
> > algorithm that can be tweaked?
> >
> > --
> > Knute Snortum