Re: Usability Question

[Brett Duncan]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Brett Duncan wrote:
> <snip>
> >        <<
> >            \new Voice="3" { \voiceThree b'4}
> There's no point in naming the contexts here. You could save some
> typing by simply saying
> \new Voice { \voiceThree b'4}
Thanks Mats - I'd followed what Rutger had posted, and assumed that the 
contexts had to be named, it's useful to know that's not necessary.
> For the beam slant, it's tedious but possible to manually specify the 
> position of the
> end points of the beam, see the example called beam-control.ly in the 
> Tips and Tricks
> document.
Actually, it's not really that tedious -the override is pretty 
straightforward and easy to understand. It took me very little time to 
look at the example and apply the override.

OTOH, adjusting the final slur to match what was in the JPEG *was* 
tedious, and I noticed that in the example in Tips and Tricks it points 
out that any change in the horizontal spacing will also require 
repositioning the slur.

I'm going to play with that a little more, to make sure I really 
understand what it's doing. Incidentally, is there a way to extract the 
control points of a slur automatically generated by LP? I tried 
\displayMusic but it didn't tell me anything about the control points.

Brett