Re: Can a dynamics mark ignore a slur?

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 21 December 2011 05:42, Andrew Hawryluk <address@hidden> wrote:
> Based on the properties in the Internals Reference, it appears that
> dynamics can be set to ignore slurs. I've seen it done successfully
> with articulation marks, but my attempt with dynamics is failing. In
> my test case, I want both p's to be close to the staff, but the second
> one is displaced by the slur:
>
> […]
>
> Motivation: LilyPond draws very nice slurs, but it places them in
> rectangular boxes that push other elements far away. I don't want to
> resort to an extra y-offset because the offset distance will be
> different in the full score than in the parts (the slur goes over a
> line break in the full score).

This is tracked as issue #695 : slurs may take too much vertical extent
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=695

  \once \override Slur #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0)

is a workaround that was suggested and works quite well in this case.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-03/msg00501.html

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>