Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
Am 23.11.2015 um 11:20 schrieb David Kastrup:
At any rate, you can also play with settings height-limit and ratio.
OK, I've now found out how height-limit and ratio play together.
Actually ratio is the setting to deal with the behaviour of curves of
different length.
Interestingly I have to override Slur.height-limit but
Tie.details.height-limit
But looking for another property of Slurs and Ties leads me to another
question:
Is this:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/slur
and
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/slur_002dinterface
really the reference for how I can change the appearance of slurs and
ties?
If that's true I think it's really awful. I know the IR is a *reference*
and not a tutorial but I'm sure that *noone* will be able to look up the
information for tweaks they need anything near efficiently. The majority
of properties is described in a completely inaccessible manner.
The IR is a programmers' reference. For power users, it's more like a
last resort. Of course that does not mean that incomprehensible
documentation strings are a feature rather than a problem, but it does
mean that
a) the organization of properties in a user-friendly way is not a
priority: end users should rather get stuff like \shape to work with, or
style files (which we don't really have).
b) reworking this into a consistently friendly resource where each
property description is reasonably understandable on its own is a large
chunk of work. Some fly-by fixes will not suffice for making a dent in
the overall character of the IR.