Re: Articulation mark & slur placement

[Knute Snortum]

Is this maybe what you're looking for?

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/learning/outside_002dstaff-objects

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Knute Snortum

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 4:59 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 
> [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of 
> 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
>
>