Open ties and l.v.

markbowler · October 6, 2017, 3:56pm

Rob Tuley:

markbowler:

Oh. There doesn’t appear to be a glyph for a tie / slur - the box is empty!
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/tables/beams-and-slurs.html

The characters on that page are control characters that define where in the score the ties/slurs start and end, if anybody needs to encode that information independent of actually drawing the ties/slurs. As the text on the page says, notation software can ignore these control characters.

There are no glyphs for “real” ties/slurs in most music fonts either - they are created as graphical curves to fit around the other notation. (Punches for the most commonly used shapes of “short” slurs and ties were made in the days of hand engraving, and were included in at least one now-obsolete notation software app, but all that is now ancient history).

You want U+E4BA and U+E4BB on the page LSalguiero linked to - “articulations”.

Thanks Rob - beginning to understand now