musescore / musescore/MuseScore

option to draw slurs as circle segments (if possible.)

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engraving feature request
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Your idea

Have an option to draw the inner and outer boundaries of slurs as circle segments.

Problem to be solved

Hand engraved music notation (such as produced by Barenreiter) draw the inner and outer line of their slurs as circles (or arcs.)
To my eye, this is a huge improvement over modern (read: digital) engraving as it allows the phrasing to "breathe." ( I know, flowery language.)
We have been getting so used to see slurs drawn as Bezier curves, with the ends "hooking into" the notes, disturbing the natural flow of the eye. In my (not so humble) view, drawing slurs as the "old masters" did is the single most important engraving improvement to be had.

Prior art

I have run into this problem in Mozart (another music notation program), and when they implemented the "arc" option, I never looked back to the "Bezier" curves. Here's an example from their website:
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