Re: Acciaccaturas under slurs

[David Sumbler]

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 16:42 +0100, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:35:22PM +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
> > a4( \acciaccatura b8 c4 d)
> 
> Known problem; you can't do this.

Oh!  :-(

> > How can I persuade Lilypond to print a slur correctly from the A to the
> > D?
> 
> You can kind-of fake it with a phrasing slur.  \( \)

Brilliant - that works a treat.  Doing it this way does produce the
usual (but here unnecessary) slur from the acciaccatura to the following
note, but I can live with that.

> This runs into problems if you want an acciacatura, slur, and
> phrasing slur, though.  If you really need that, I'd fake the
> accia slur with postscript.

I rarely use 2 layers of slurs, so it is unlikely to be a problem to me.

Thanks for your speedy reply!

David