Re: dotted or dashed phrasing slurs

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you use version 2.11, please note that this is one thing that has
changed, so please use the corresponding definitions
from ly/property-init.ly as a starting point. If I remember
correctly, convert-ly will issue a warning but will not solve the
problem automatically, when you upgrade your file.

  /Mats

Quoting Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden>:

> Am Samstag, 8. März 2008 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> > Am Samstag, 8. März 2008 schrieb Peter Kaplan:
> > > I am interested in making phrasing slurs that are (graphically, not
> > > rhythmically) dotted or dashed, in order to differentiate them visually
> > > from ordinary legato slurs (to be represented with solid slurs).  Is
> > > there a way to do this straightforwardly in lilypond?
> >
> > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=133
>
> Oh, right, if you want to have these settings apply to real phrasing slurs
> generated by \( and \), then you can't use \slurDashed, but have to apply the
> appropriate settings on the PhrasingSlur object. if you look at the file
> ly/property-init.ly, there is the definition for \slurDashed:
>
> slurDashed = {
>  \override Slur #'dash-period = #0.75
>  \override Slur #'dash-fraction = #0.4
> }
>
> This sets the appropriate settings for slurs. For phrasing slurs, you would
> simply have to define your own command, setting dash-period for PhrasingSlur:
>
> phrasingSlurDashed = {
>  \override PhrasingSlur #'dash-period = #0.75
>  \override PhrasingSlur #'dash-fraction = #0.4
> }
> phrasingSlurDotted = {
>  \override PhrasingSlur  #'dash-period = #0.75
>  \override PhrasingSlur #'dash-fraction = #0.1
> }
> phrasingSlurSolid = {
>  \revert PhrasingSlur #'dash-period
>  \revert PhrasingSlur #'dash-fraction
> }
>
> Sample file (the lsr example, adapted to phrasing slurs) is attached.
>
> cheers,
> Reinhold
>
> PS: I wonder if we shouldn't add these definitions to ly/property-init.ly for
> the sake of consistency...
>
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