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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