Slur styles

There are different styles of slurs available in Dorico Pro, which indicate different meanings and have different use cases.

The following options for slur style are available when you activate Style in the Slurs group of the Properties panel:

Solid

This is the default style for slurs. Slurs appear as tapered solid lines: thinner at the ends and thicker in the middle.

Dashed

Slurs appear as tapered dashed lines. Can be used to indicate an optional slur, for example, to recommend breathing/bowing patterns.

Dotted

Slurs appear as dotted lines. The dots are the same size and the same distance apart over the whole length of the slur.

Half-dashed start

The first halves of slurs appear as dashed lines, the second halves as solid lines. Used to denote that a slur was written incompletely in the source in critical editions.

Half-dashed end

The first halves of slurs appear as solid lines, the second halves as dashed lines. Used to denote that a slur was written incompletely in the source in critical editions.

Editorial

Slurs appear as solid black lines, but with a smaller vertical line intersecting them exactly halfway along their length, perpendicular to the curve of the slur. Used to show that a slur was added by the editor and was not present in the original source.

Tip

You can set the precise parameters of each of these options project-wide on the Slurs page in Engrave > Engraving Options. For example, you can change the length and width of the stroke in Editorial slurs, the diameter of dots and length of dashes, and the sizes of the gaps between dots and dashes.