Re: Tweak Slur direction "neutral"

[Jean Abou Samra]

On 30/01/2023 23:08, Ahanu Banerjee wrote:
> Perhaps the documentation could be amended to clarify how neutral direction 
> is handled for slurs? There are two documentation pages here that mention 
> slur orientation but don't describe the calculation that occurs in 
> \slurNeutral:
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/direction-and-placement#the-direction-property
>  
> <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/direction-and-placement#the-direction-property>


I think it's not necessary to go to this level of detail in
the documentation: \displayLilyMusic tends to work well enough.


> Also, the documentation in the second link states "The value 0 may also be 
> used in some cases. It is simply treated as meaning UP for slurs, but for 
> some objects it means ‘center’." This doesn't seem accurate, as \override 
> Slur.direction = 0 results in an error, not a slur with direction UP.

That one sounds like a genuine documentation bug indeed.

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