No. 477

An Option to Reshape Slurs when Respacing Music

IWBNI there were an option to specify that when music is respaced, slurs should be automatically reshaped to conform to settings on the Slur Contour dialog box.

Note: When music is respaced, the length of slurs may be changed, and the shape of a slur is a function of its length.

This could be implemented by adding the following controls to the Music Spacing Options dialog box:

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Music Spacing Options Dialog Box

Reshape Slurs:
( ) All Slurs
( ) Only If Not Reshaped Manually
( ) No Slurs
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A given slur is said to be "reshaped manually" if any of the following operations has been performed on the control points that are within the bounding rectangle of the slur:



Created: April 22, 2000 (based on a submission from Andrew Stiller and comments by Tobias Giesen and Robert Patterson)
Last Updated: April 22, 2000
Version: Finale 2000b