Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 29.01.2017 13:38, Robert Blackstone wrote: My problem with your advice "You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is_started_, not when it already had ended." was : How does a beginner know what is the right moment? You’ve got a point there, that was kind of ‘Lily-speak’. ‘moment’

Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Blackstone writes: > Hi Richard, > > Thanks for your clarification. > My problem is: How does one know at which moment something, for > example a slur, or the call for the grob "slur", is started? A case in > point is \arpeggio. Naively one may think this

Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi Richard, Thanks for your clarification. My problem is: How does one know at which moment something, for example a slur, or the call for the grob "slur", is started? A case in point is \arpeggio. Naively one may think this command has to be placed before the notes, not after. Wrong! No

Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi David, Thanks for your reply (and your admonition to read more carefully next time(s)). My problem with your advice "You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is _started_, not when it already had ended." was : How does a beginner know what is the right moment? Apparently for this

Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 11:57 +0100, Robert Blackstone wrote: > Hi David, > > > Ref.: "You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is _started_, not > when it already had ended." That sounds perfectly logical but I think you may not be aware that the word "moment" here is being used as a

Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Blackstone writes: > Hi David, > > Ref.: "You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is _started_, not > when it already had ended." That sounds perfectly logical but when I > place \slurUp before the ( or \( I get the error message "error: > syntax error,

Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi David, Ref.: "You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is _started_, not when it already had ended." That sounds perfectly logical but when I place \slurUp before the ( or \( I get the error message "error: syntax error, unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER" No idea why. But your advice is very

Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Blackstone writes: > Dear all, > In some passages like the one shown in the ME the composer (long dead) > wants a slur positioned above the beam. > > > > {\clef "treble" \key b \minor \time 3/8 > \stemUp 8 ( [ g''8 ) \slurUp 8 ]

Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Robert: Would this help? Andrew == snip { \clef "treble" \key b \minor \time 3/8 \stemUp 8^( [ g''8 ) 8 ] | % 137 \stemUp 8^( [ g''8 ) 8 ] | % 137 } == snip On 29 January 2017 at 20:40, Robert Blackstone wrote: >

How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

2017-01-29 Thread Robert Blackstone
Dear all, In some passages like the one shown in the ME the composer (long dead) wants a slur positioned above the beam. {\clef "treble" \key b \minor \time 3/8 \stemUp 8 ( [ g''8 ) \slurUp 8 ] | % 137 \stemUp 8 \( [ g''8 \) \phrasingSlurUp 8 ]