> On 6 Dec, 2020, at 12:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> > wrote: > > I’m hoping to avoid the Slur_spacing_engraver entirely. ;) > What does it do exactly? >
It tightens the spacing between notes which are inside a slur so that the musical sense is clear without the usual bow (though, it’s a separate setting to actually omit the bow). Attached are two versions of the same antiphon: the first uses the usual bow for slurs, the second uses the Slur_spacing_engraver instead. Both are compiled from the same source (except for consisting the Slur_spacing_engraver and "\omit”ing the bow). I’m deliberately avoiding the suggestion in the manual on using a fixed time and tuplets because I feel that construction makes the source for the notes really difficult to enter and read because of all the interspersed durations (and the calculations necessary to figure them out). By using the Slur_spacing_engraver I eliminate the need to worry about the durations at all and simply slur notes that belong to the same syllable (which is normal practice anyway). ✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝ Fr. Samuel, OSB (R. Padraic Springuel) St. Anselm’s Abbey 4501 South Dakota Ave, NE Washington, DC, 20017 202-269-2300 (c) 202-853-7036 PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ
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