Alternative slurs/legato markings
When I prepare scores and exercises for students/colleagues, I often find I would like to use both regular slur/legato markings, as well as an angled one (such as a saw-tooth).
At the moment there is no way to do this and I fall back on using dotted and/or dashed slurs... This is ok for now but I wish there was a way to have an angled one, too!
for example as it is in the picture below (screenshot from a certain popular guitar publication...
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Are those truly slurs, or are they bends or tremolo bar notations? We support both of those directly already, see the Articulations palette.
You might also try the Symbols palette (press "Z" to display) which contains thousands of symbols defined by the SMuFL standnard. If this isn't there, it probably should be, so it would be worth writing to Steinberg to request it. Once it is added to the standard, it would then start to become available in the fonts we rely on.
In reply to Are those truly slurs, or… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the reply Mark! (g)
I've looked through all the symbols; some, like the saw-tooth segment look similar towhat I had in mind, but don't interact with the score in the desired way... My request was not to invent a new symbol, per se, but rather to expand the drawing of the object that has identical behavior (the slur line connects two or more notes, has automatic width, is flip-able, etc).
Yes, such a thing would be useful as a way to notate a particular guitar technique, but the pure notation itself would also be useful for making analysis worksheets (for example this symbol is sometimes used to help identify where major intervals and minor intervals lie between pairs of notes).
In reply to Thanks for the reply Mark! … by theRealNicola
That makes sense. Still, it would be important to be clear about the actual musical meaning of the marking in order to understand how it should behave, export to MusicXML, etc. The analysis usage is probably different from whatever this guitar notation is intended to denote and might need to behave differently. But a generic sawtooth line could be a good thing. We already have a Note Anchored Line in Add / Lines. Perhaps just a property one could set on it would be sufficient. Or maybe a single handle you can drag.
In reply to That makes sense. Still, it… by Marc Sabatella
You and the developers are the C++/QT whiz-kids, and know best... This could be a small detail that could be useful... As a side note, I had never seen this "anchored line segment" option. As a matter of fact it actually behaves exactly as what I was looking for. Is that new in musescore3? I guess there are still features and functionality that I have yet to learn... Thanks Marc! Saved the day once again...