Re: Help me get SCORE's slur/tie shape

[Dimitris Marinakis]

I forgot to add this to the initial email

https://wiki.ccarh.org/images/c/c8/Score-Reference-Manual.pdf

See pages 51-63 (printed pages) from the manual of SCORE to get an idea of what controls the slurs/ties might need to have to approximate the intended functionality.

The important things are:

• maintain as much as possible of the default Lilypond functionality

• the flatness/curviness adjustments

• the ability to make slurs asymmetric. This important for slurs with an angle pg. 59), 

• ability to have an incomplete flattened slur/tie for when system/page breaks happen or other rare edge cases

• keeping functionality of the dashed variant

• should work with L.V. ties as well

• ability to define different curvature for the after-line-breaking portion of the slur/tie

On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 1:53 PM Dimitris Marinakis <dtsmarin02@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been trying to emulate the look of SCORE (don't ask why, I just like it) and the hardest thing has been getting the signature look of its slurs & ties.

I've attached an example of how my current efforts look (work in progress - has a few mistakes).  I use the Scorlatti font and a TON of tweaks to get something that looks like SCORE.

I think such a tweak will go pretty deep so if any experts here are willing to help that would be great. I hope it doesn't have to involve any C++ to achieve this.

Abraham Lee created this code "flat-ties-and-slurs" for me years ago but it has some major limitations and still doesn't look like what I'm after.

So I had to use something else. And that something else is the shapeII code from OpenLilyLib. I meticulously reshape every single tie and slur to get a satisfactory shape but this takes a lot of time and I wish I had a code that does some of the work for me.

There is a very pleasant almost flat but not  completely flat part in the middle portion of the bezier curve.

Here are some references (I can get more if needed) 

https://bmt-systems.com/score/Carter--PartSamples.PDF

https://bmt-systems.com/score/Carter--ChamberEnsembleSample.PDF

https://bmt-systems.com/score/Carter--OrchestralScoreSamples.PDF

https://bmt-systems.com/score/Carter--PianoReductionSamples.PDF

https://www.jeffreygrossman.com/images/GrossmanEngraving.pdf