On 10 Jan 2007 at 8:26, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 10.01.2007 David W. Fenton wrote: > > But I'm not happy with that. The problem is that they aren't just > > broken-up slurs -- they're plain old lines, so they aren't thicker > > in the center. This is very bad, in my opinion. > > On the other hand it is exactly what most editions I have seen, use. > If you look at Doblinger, for instance, dotted slurs are always lines > with equal thickness. (And Doblinger have been using this long before > they used computers.) > > I would not want dashed slurs which have the shape of a real slur in > my editions. YMMV.
Some AR Editions publications use them, but they look like they are drawn by taking a regular slur and whiting out sections of it -- that is, they don't look very good. But those are very early computer typeset editions (from the late 80s). Finale's long dotted slurs don't look too bad, but the short ones are terrible. And when you look at the up close, they are terribly jagged. If they had some anti-aliasing, that would actually take care of my objection. And come to think of it, all they really need is slightly thicker middles and slightly thinner ends, not the same profile as a regular slur (i.e., not as thick in the middle, not as thin at the ends). I just don't find them professional-looking at all. Bärentreiter uses non-tapered dotted slurs, too, but they don't look as bad as Finale's. They seem to be thinner overall. Maybe I need to make the lines thinner. I'll experiment and see. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
