On Mar 15, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
I agree with this. Slurs are so easy to adjust now that they can be made to lie quite flat and keep an uncluttered look without much effort.
Is there a new development I'm unaware of? Last I heard, no matter how many new tools they give you for slur adjustment it's still by definition required to be a Bezier curve, yes? If so, then it's mathematically impossible to get a slur that has the nice rounded curves you want on the ends with a big long straight part in the middle, as, say, Ross recommends. Sure, you can flatten it, but then it's too flat at the endpoints, or if your try to pick them up by the control points, then the curve is too sharp.
I know that it's impractical for Finale to completely change how slurs are defined internally, but I would like to see them add an additional variable which essentially interpolates a straight line of length X to the midpoint of the slur. It would be the digital equivalent of using your curve template to draw each half of the slur at a distance and a straight edge to connect them. Presumably this could be tacked on to the current definition by adding one new piece of information while leaving the rest alone, so that all old slurs just have a distance of zero in the middle (as indeed you would want for most slurs).
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