Re: tuplet slurs

[David Nalesnik]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:43 PM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>> For voices with lyrics it is common to put triplet indications
>>>> always above the staff, using the following rules.
>>>>
>>>>   . stems up or down, no beam: as usual (i.e., a number and a
>>>>      bracket at the top, as if using \tupletUp)
>>>>
>>>>    . stems up, with beam: as usual (i.e., a number over the beam)
>>>>
>>>> The last case, however, is unusual:
>>>>
>>>>    . stem down, with beam: a number and a *slur* at the top.
>>
>> BTW, these rules can be found in the vocal score of `Arabella' (by
>> Richard Strauss), for example.
>>
>>> It strikes me that I've seen code somewhere that uses slurs instead of
>>> brackets.  I find this:
>>> http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=1658.0
>>
>> Yes, I can remember that also – very nice!
>>
>>> The results look great, but of course, the slur is broken.  It might
>>> not be hard to modify that routine to do what you want..
>>
>> Oh, I actually don't really care whether the slur is broken or not.
>> I'm rather interested in having a lilypond option to make it behave
>> (i.e., differentiate between tuplet slur and tuplet brackets) as
>> outlined above.
>
> I've attached a patch which permits tuplets with slurs instead of
> brackets.  Sorry that you have to build LilyPond to use it.
>
> It's pretty rough.  For one thing, the slur shapes for inclined slurs
> are probably not ideal.
>
> To get the bowed-tuplets, you set TupletBracket.tuplet-slur to #t.
>
> You can move the slur closer/further from the number by setting
> TupletNumber.padding to the value you'd like (default: 0.3).  Don't
> know what other
> consequences there might be when setting TupletNumber.padding, but I
> don't want to add more properties unless it's really necessary.
>
> To get the behavior you want, check the example file.  There is a
> Scheme function which
> should put your rules into effect.
>

Here's an image of the example file.

David

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