Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-11 Thread Galen Menzel
On 11 Aug 2018, at 10:33, David Kastrup wrote: > "Galen Menzel" writes: > >> On 11 Aug 2018, at 1:23, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: >>> >>> This is just to explain how the penalty system works for finding the >>> optimum >>> solution among several possibilities, but of course the best way is >>> to

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-11 Thread David Kastrup
"Galen Menzel" writes: > On 11 Aug 2018, at 1:23, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: >> >> This is just to explain how the penalty system works for finding the >> optimum >> solution among several possibilities, but of course the best way is >> to say >> "I definitely do not want ties shorter than

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-11 Thread Galen Menzel
On 11 Aug 2018, at 1:23, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: This is just to explain how the penalty system works for finding the optimum solution among several possibilities, but of course the best way is to say "I definitely do not want ties shorter than min-length!" is simply setting

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-11 Thread Galen Menzel
On 11 Aug 2018, at 0:26, Malte Meyn wrote: I would not notate the left hand rhythm as 4. 8~ 8 8~ 8 8 but as 4. 8~ 8 4 8 That’s easier to read for the player. Thanks for pointing this out! You’re totally right — I’m not sure why I thought tied eighth notes would be appropriate here.

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-11 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Galen Menzel wrote > Just so I understand, it seems that Tie.details.min-length cannot > influence note spacing. What does it influence other than this specific > case that I am asking about here? Hi Galen, By the way: I also stumbled over the fact that min-length is not listed among the

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 10.08.2018 um 21:42 schrieb Galen Menzel: Hi all, I have a score in which the following measure renders nicely when only the piano line is given: However, when the vocal line is also given, the slurs above the bass-clef g eighth notes become very hard to see: Presumably the vocal

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-10 Thread Galen Menzel
On 10 Aug 2018, at 16:08, David Nalesnik wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 6:05 PM Galen Menzel wrote: However, I’m a bit baffled as to how I could have found this setting. The tie internals page doesn’t list min-length as one of the members of tie’s details alist. Where is this setting

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-10 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 6:05 PM Galen Menzel wrote: > However, I’m a bit baffled as to how I could have found this setting. The tie > internals page doesn’t list min-length as one of the members of tie’s details > alist. > > Where is this setting documented? > > Thanks again! > > Galen > You

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-10 Thread Galen Menzel
On 10 Aug 2018, at 13:50, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: Galen Menzel wrote Is there a simple way to direct lilypond to use the larger ties here? Hi Galen, Yes, there are several ways: The most obvíous way is to use \override Tie.minimum-length = #... But this also affects the spacing of

Re: Making slurs more visible

2018-08-10 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Galen Menzel wrote > Is there a simple way to direct lilypond to use the larger > ties here? Hi Galen, Yes, there are several ways: The most obvíous way is to use \override Tie.minimum-length = #... But this also affects the spacing of notes. If I get you correctly, you'd rather like to

Making slurs more visible

2018-08-10 Thread Galen Menzel
Hi all, I have a score in which the following measure renders nicely when only the piano line is given: ![](cid:457B4698-50AF-4F97-B079-EB00368B@utexas.edu "Screen Shot 2018-08-10 at 12.22.25 PM.png") However, when the vocal line is also given, the slurs above the bass-clef g eighth