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Notation reference
Slurs
Slurs are tapered, curved lines that join notes to indicate legato articulation and phrasing.
General placement conventions for slurs
There are different conventions for the placement, endpoint position, shape, and curvature direction of slurs in various contexts.
Slur collision avoidance
By default, Dorico Elements automatically adjusts the shape and position of slurs to avoid collisions with items under their arc.
Enabling/Disabling slur collision avoidance
You can allow or prevent individual slurs from automatically adjusting to avoid collisions. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Enabling/Disabling slur collision avoidance

You can allow or prevent individual slurs from automatically adjusting to avoid collisions. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

The lower zone is shown.
Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.
You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

In Engrave mode, select the slurs whose collision avoidance you want to enable/disable.
In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate Avoid collisions in the Slurs group.
Activate/Deactivate the corresponding checkbox.

Result

The selected slurs avoid collisions when the checkbox is activated, and do not avoid collisions when the checkbox is deactivated. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Example


Figure 1. Slur with collision avoidance activated (default)	Figure 2. Slur with collision avoidance deactivated