Slurs behaving strangely

In the attached document I have tried to add a slur to indicate a hammer-on for a guitar transcription in two places. I have highlighted the two notes (the grace note and the top note in the chord in each case) and pressed S. I have the following result which is far from satisfactory. Any ideas please? Thanks

James - TAB.dorico (829.9 KB)

A bit better if you flip the slur with f.

Jesper

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Genius! Thanks. Why doesn’t it do this by default though?

That’s another question.

Jesper

Hi @Nick_Hollings, besides the useful suggestion by @jesele, you could also deactivate avoid collision (from Properties Panel in Engrave mode):

Result:

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Thank you both for your helpful responses.

It’s been acknowledged that slurs between grace notes and normal notes are sometimes far from the usual kind of perfection Dorico usually delivers… Both tricks are useful to learn and know, thank you both!

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