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From: Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at>
To: Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com>
Cc: kieren@kierenmacmillan.info, lilypond-user@gnu.org
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:45:42 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Is the slur too close to the top note?
Hello Knute,
you if you check out the internals for Slur (also Tie) you'll find that you have quite a lot of control over the demerits and penalties used for calculating the Slur shape in the details property, as well options like height-limit, rate, excentricity and stuff.
This means that many times instead of using shape it can be better to simply tweak a small parameter. Sadly there is little documentation for this.
Valentin
11.02.2022 16:33:27 Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
> --
> Knute Snortum
I find it is useful to start making sure that the global parameters
get you as close as possible,
before dealing with individual slurs.
Sometimes the thing you need to fix the worst offenders actually helps everything else, in more moderate applications.
As an example, here is what is in most of my style sheets.
I think the free-head-distance is worth playing around with.
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\override Tie #'thickness = #2.1
\override Slur #'thickness = #2.2
\override PhrasingSlur #'thickness = #2.6
}
\context {
\Voice
\override Slur.height-limit = 3.6
\override Slur.ratio = 0.36
\override Slur.minimum-length = 2.3
\override Slur.details.free-head-distance = 1.0
}
}
HTH,
Elaine Alt
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elaine@flaminghakama.com
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