Re: [tablatures] Bends: tests for appearance of pointed slurs

[David Stocker <dstocker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These are excellent results! Great work.

I think the third configuration yields the best appearance.

I only have a few comments:

  1. In a bend and release combination, it would be nice if the
     right-most edge of the "bend-up" line and the left-most edge of
     the "release-down" line were separated by about 0.25 staff spaces.
  2. In Measure 13, the bend line that corresponds to the tie in the
     note-staff (during the \holdBend) should be a dashed line.

These results are already as good as or better than the defaults in 
Sibelius and Finale.

David


Marc Hohl wrote:
> Hello tablature users,
>
> hopefully 2010 will bring a user-friendly solution
> for coding bends.
> Since my last posts concerning bends, I was stuck by
> some implementation design problems, but now I think
> I know how to handle them ...
>
> Please compile the attached file (test-pointed-slurs.ly),
> bend.ly has to be put into the same directory.
>
> There are three possibilities to draw the pointed slurs
> in the normal staves.
>
> 1) fixed height: the triangle covered by the pointed slur
> has a fixed height regardless of the distance of the note heads.
> At the moment, the height is 2 staff sizes, but you can change this
> value in bend.ly; just adapt the value in
>
> #(define pointed-slur-height 2.0)
>
> to your needs.
>
> 2) Here I tried to follow the tangents on the normally drawn slurs in the
> outer points.
>
> 3) This is approximately a triangle throught the end points and the
> middle point of a normally drawn slur.
>
> Please consider the appearance in extreme situations, when the note heads
> are close together/accidentals are present etc.
>
> What do you think? How should the pointed slurs look like?
>
> Greetings
>
> Marc