In reply to Wheat Williams.

@Wheat: We're in the early stages of working on slurs at the moment, and it's certainly our intention that you should have plenty of control over where slur end points should go, whether they go on the notehead side (which tends to be reasonably straightforward) or on the stem side (which is a bit more complicated, since as you say you may want the slur's end point to be positioned some way down the stem towards the notehead – though not too close, I hope). My expectation would be that you will be able to get the result you want automatically, without any need for manually repositioning individual slurs, through judicious setting of the options provided.