Re: How to draw a slur above beamed notes with their stems up.

[Robert Blackstone]

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply (and your admonition to read more carefully next time(s)).

My problem with your advice "You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is 
_started_, not when it already had ended." was : How does a beginner know what 
is the right moment? 

Apparently for this event it is at the very beginning of a new bar, before any 
note, stem, beam or slur has been called. And it will be inherited in the 
following bars.
Good to know. I hadn't realized that.

Of course I fully agree with your concluding remark. Unfortunately there are 
sometimes way too many sentences to be read for a real understanding ...  
Thanks again,
Robert


On 29 Jan 2017, at 12:06 , David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Robert Blackstone <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> Ref.: "You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is _started_, not
>> when it already had ended." That sounds perfectly logical but when I
>> place \slurUp before the ( or \( I get the error message "error:
>> syntax error, unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER" No idea why.
> 
> "At the moment a slur is started" is not the same as "square in the
> middle of the musical expression when a moment is started".
> 
> And it's not like I have not explicitly explained it:
> 
>>> You have to use \slurUp at the moment a slur is _started_, not when it
>>> already had ended.
>>> 
>>> In this case this means either writing \slurUp/\phrasingSlurUp together
>>> with the respective \stemUp (usually all of those would rather be \once
>>> \whateverUp ).
> 
> Sometimes it pays to read more than one sentence.  But if people did
> that, our political landscape would likely be different.  Which does not
> need to be a bad thing.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup