Hi Andrew,

Decapitated arrows as stiff slurs. Why not?  Perhaps I would like to try it, 
some day. (But as a LilyPond newbie there are many more urgent things I have to 
learn now.)

But also I have to decide whether or not to copy Telemann's Strich in the 
modern version. That depends on whether they are really and only figured bass 
extenders, as has been argued in this thread, for which there is a more 
official visual marking, or whether it is just Telemann's way of indicating 
that the accompaying keyboard player should not play or add chords beyond the 
first note of such a "slurred" bass progression.

As for your last remark: I would consider it as a very harmless manifestation 
of human greed.

Best regards,
Robert

PS While I was writing this reply your next mail(s) arrived.

Ref.: "I think he should adhere to the original look and feel." 
I fully agree, and that is what I intend to do, the more so since "Telemann's 
Strich" does not seem to be identical with a figured bass extender in all 
occurrences. 
Thanks for this comment.

On 21 Dec 2015, at 00:16 , Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting!
> 
> I have a generalised arrow drawing function that draws arrows of any length 
> in any rotational position, done in Scheme. If I removed the arrowhead, do 
> you think that would be useful? My arrows are not tapered lines, but of 
> uniform thickness.
> 
> Amusingly, recently we wanted curved beams. Now we want straight slurs!
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 

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