This may be a long shot, but it causes me a lot of grief: in situations where a flat slur ends on the first note of a system (or begins on the last), the tiny flat slur there is very ugly, and it is difficult to make it look consistent with analogous curved slurs. I would love to be able to designate this part of the slur to be drawn as a curved slur, while retaining the rest as a flat slur.
Alternatively, an Engraving Option to always draw short portions of flat slurs as curved would be very welcome.
Thanks for the feedback, David. I’ll make a note of this, and perhaps it will be something we can address in a future version.
I would also very much welcome this. Whether a slur crosses to just the first note of the next system, or beyond, the choice of flat or round slur depends on both the length and the obstacles it needs to avoid. I suppose automation could be introduced: slurs (whether single ones contained within one system, or two split across two systems) over a used-defined number of spaces in length could be made flat, but always with the facility to override. Or just automate short portions of flat ties being made round?
To add further complication, it is quite possible for a slur to extend over more than two systems. While it’s likely one would desire middle portions to be flat, either end portions might be flat or round.
I must say however that, now the little graphical glitch in the centre of flat slurs has been fixed, I really am loving them. In many situations long slurs look much more elegant when they are flat, and the flatness helps enormously in saving vertical space.
I won’t mention that it would also be lovely to have flat ties.
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