Hello,
in this image
the first slur for staff 1 and 2 get a bit out of shape because of the accidental. What would be the best way to handle this situation?
I looked through the engraving options but do not know what to change.
Thanks
LAE
There aren’t any Engraving Options you can change that will resolve this, I’m afraid, at least for now. You’ll need to tweak the position of the end of the slur in Engrave mode.
I would also like to request a separate a setting for the distance between a slur and a sharp.
Although I would actually place more space between this particular slur and the naturals, here is an example of what it looks like when naturals are set to 1/4 space intersection with a slur:
Here is the same example with sharps which produces too great a space between the slur and sharps and thus distorts the slur and moves it too far away from the the left end point.
I will adjust this to look like this:
Or is there some other setting that I need to change?
I do not have an answer, but I can just share that I read in some other forum that to really get into the business of engraving music you have to love tweaking of slurs (you are surely aware of that…!)
I have worked a lot with slur settings, but nevertheless I think I spend 90% of all manual tweaking time on slurs…
@LAE While I love slur-tweaking as much as the next engraver, I did finally get my Dorico slur settings to the point where nuts and bolts tweaking has been somewhat minimized. This business with the sharps is still an issue, however. A simple distance setting like the one that now exists for flats and naturals would take care of that.
I fully agree.
Thanks for this feedback. This is on our backlog for future implementation.
You are very welcome, Daniel. And thank you for the many improvements that the team continues to make in Dorico.
@dspreadbury I understand that this has now been implemented in Dorico 5.5. Thank you to you and the team for making this improvement!