Re: Articulation mark & slur placement

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mo., 21. Dez. 2020 um 17:58 Uhr schrieb Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>:
>
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 16:31, Michael Seifert <mseifert@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >         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
> > }
> >
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> I thought changing the avoid-slur property of marcato and staccatissimo 
> scripts from inside (default) to around (value for accent) would give the 
> behavior you want.
> But this does not work, the output is totally different and I have many 
> programmation errors: script direction not yet known.
> The problem also exhibits with accent, whereas I just copied the default 
> (unmodified) settings!
> A bug?
>
> #(define my-script-alist

Hi Xavier,

I didn't follow this thread, thus I don't know whether the output is
as intended.
Nevertheless,  you need to quasiquote your additions, i.e.

(append `(

Cheers,
  Harm

>    (append '(
>               ("accent"
>                 (avoid-slur . around)
>                 (padding . 0.20)
>                 (script-stencil . (feta . ("sforzato" . "sforzato")))
>                 (side-relative-direction . ,DOWN))
>               ("marcato"
>                 (script-stencil . (feta . ("dmarcato" . "umarcato")))
>                 (padding . 0.20)
>                 (avoid-slur . around)
>                 ;;(staff-padding . ())
>                 (quantize-position . #t)
>                 (side-relative-direction . ,DOWN))
>               ("staccatissimo"
>                 (avoid-slur . around)
>                 (quantize-position . #t)
>                 (script-stencil . (feta . ("dstaccatissimo" . 
> "ustaccatissimo")))
>                 (padding . 0.20)
>                 (skyline-horizontal-padding . 0.10)
>                 (side-relative-direction . ,DOWN)
>                 (toward-stem-shift . 1.0)
>                 (toward-stem-shift-in-column . 0.0))
>               ) default-script-alist)
>    )
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Score
>     scriptDefinitions = #my-script-alist
>   }
> }
>
> \relative c' {
>   d'4-^( e4 f4-.) r4
>   d4->( e4 f4-.) r4
>   d4-.( e4 f4-.) r4
>   d4--( e4 f4-.) r4
>   d4-!( e4 f4-.) r4
> }
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier
>
> --
> Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>
>