Re: two slur beginning on a same note

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:

> OK! However, I'm certain that sooner or later you'll find some
> composer who has used three or more simultaneous ``slurs''

Hmm, you're probably right.  With the current code, it should be
fairly easy to add a property allowSimultaneousSlurs.  We should add
that, (along with allowSimultaneousPhrasingSlurs), and fix the (())
matching bug.

> Also, at least for us who mostly use Lilypond for new editions
> of old music manuscripts, it's not always obvious if a curved bow
> is a slur or a phrasing mark, so it's not obvious if we should
> use () or \( \) in the Lilypond code (this is more a philosophical
> problem, though, as long as both are typeset the same way).

That's the magnificent thing about stuff with source code: if you
don't know better, just choose one, whenever a guru comes along she
will fix it :-)

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