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Re: Articulation mark & slur placement
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Michael Seifert |
Subject: |
Re: Articulation mark & slur placement |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 10:30:53 -0500 |
Well, if we’re doing everything the way Elaine Gould wants us to, then:
- articulation should go generally go next to the notehead, not next to
the stem; but
- the marcato mark usually goes above the staff, regardless of stem
direction. (Note: not directly above the stemm, but above the staff).
So one could fix the problem for up-stemmed notes simply by putting the marcato
accent above the staff (and tweaking its vertical placement.) But the problem
would remain for the same snippet an octave higher, with down-stemmed notes.
Interestingly, the accent mark > *does* behave the way I want it to in
the code below. Effectively, I want the marcato mark (and the “staccato
wedge”) to behave like the accent mark in the code below, rather than behaving
like the staccato or tenuto marks.
\relative c' {
d'4-^( e4 f4-.) r4
d4->( e4 f4-.) r4
d4-.( e4 f4-.) r4
d4--( e4 f4-.) r4
d4-!( e4 f4-.) r4
}
Mike Seifert
> On Dec 19, 2020, at 7:49 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonmark@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Mike
>
> Any requirement that the marcato to be below the note?
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lilypond-user
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> Michael Seifert
> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 3:10 PM
> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Subject: Articulation mark & slur placement
>
> The following code
>
> \relative c' {
> d4-^( e4 f4-.) r4
> }
>
> produces a slur with all articulation marks “inside” the slur. Typically,
> however, articulation marks are supposed to go “outside” the first note of a
> slur: “Usually, only tenuto lines and staccato marks may go inside of the
> first and the last notes of a slur.” (“Behind Bars”, p. 121) If we follow
> this guideline in the excerpt above, the endpoint of the slur should be
> closer to the notehead than the marcato accent is. The staccato mark, on the
> other hand, is correctly placed.
>
> Is there a way to make it so that the “usual” placement occurs by default?
> Or do I need to tweak this manually for each articulation mark (other than
> staccato and tenuto) that begins a phrase?
>
> Mike Seifert
>