Consistency of slurs from grace notes

Thank you once again for taking the time to investigate the issue and report back. I continue to be amazed by the generosity of people on this forum, and I’m incredibly grateful for the support so freely given. I probably read around 80% of the posts and learn a tremendous amount, but remembering all the details is where I tend to come unstuck.

I do wonder why the default setting was changed in the Scoring Express template. Perhaps someone can explain the reasoning, as there may well be advantages to using a smaller value that won’t become apparent until I experiment with different settings. Although it’s easy enough to revert to a different value, I’m a little hesitant given that my current project already contains well over 100,000 notes.

You have a keener eye than I do, but now that you’ve pointed out that slurs from grace notes to main notes of the same pitch aren’t horizontal, I can’t help but keep noticing it. Let’s hope this aspect of the functionality receives a modest refinement in a future version.

I’ve ordered a copy of Gould… at last!

Happy to help!

Sorry about that :sweat_smile: To be honest I never noticed this myself before diving into this thread but I can’t unsee it now either… so I’m joining you in hoping that this will one day be fixed.

I was thinking the other day that this might be on purpose - to not confuse slurs with ties (who are always horizontal). So slurs are sort of more alive in adapting to the surrounding notes of different pitches, but also sizes.

As @Zalde noticed, the distance from notehead to slur end is likely the same, but the smaller notehead on the grace notes changes the point from which the distance is measured.