RE: Parenthesized slurs

[Daniel Rosen]

Works great. Thanks so much!

DR


-----Original Message-----
From: David Nalesnik [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 6:37 PM
To: Daniel Rosen
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Parenthesized slurs

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Daniel Rosen <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm trying to engrave a score with parentheses around a slur. Can't find 
> anything like this in the LSR; the last time this was brought up in the list 
> appears to be 2005 
> (http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c4343E72F.6000500%40s3.kth.se%3e).
>  Is this possible to do?
>

I've attached a file which I hope will be helpful.  Unfortunately, I needed to 
duplicate rather a lot of code from scm\stencil.scm, since I make use of 
functions which aren't public.

I've defined a command \parenthesizeSlur which takes a number of values.  These 
are: half-thickness (controlling the line-thickness), width, angularity (larger 
values make the parentheses less rounded), and padding (controls the horizontal 
distance of the parentheses from the slur).

I've defined (and used) \myParSlur with some reasonable values for the above 
parameters.

To raise the slurs up a bit, I used \shape which is new to 2.16.  You could 
also override 'positions.

Let me know if this works for you or you need any further explanation.

-David