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Re: Middle line stem direction in 2.8
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: Middle line stem direction in 2.8 |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:55:19 +0200 (CEST) |
> I imagine that old-school engravers had a very limited number of slur
> shapes to work with,
No. Slurs were always drawn by hand.
> so this case would make the levitating slur the only option, unless
> the note-stem is inverted, in which case the slur looks very
> natural. So what did the old-timers do here, and did they do it
> from aesthetics, necessity, or convention?
If necessary, they have shortened the stem length, I think, or they
have inverted the stem direction. Both is possible in lilypond, but
the automatic default for stems without beams on the middle line
*must* be down.
Werner