Re: Long-standing bug: no ties were created

[Mats Bengtsson]

This is not a bug but a side-effect of a general principle in Lilypond,
described at
http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Default-contexts.html

The solution in your case is to explicitly instantiate a Thread context
that will contain the first chord:

alto = \notes \relative c' {
  \context Thread < d1 f, > ~ | < d2 f, > r |
}

or

alto = \context Thread \notes \relative c' {
  < d1 f, > ~ | < d2 f, > r |
}


   /Mats


Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
> The following sample has failed to work as I expect since
> Lilypond 1.4.8, at least, and still causes a problem with 1.6.6.
> I apologise for not having sent it in earlier.
>
>      -- Owen
>      address@hidden
>
> The source file, tmp.ly:
>
> alto = \notes \relative c' {
>   < d1 f, > ~ | < d2 f, > r |
> }
>
> \score {
>
>   \notes \context Staff = treble <
>         \key d \minor
>         \time 2/2
>         \clef violin
>         \alto
>   >
>
>   \paper {
>   }
>
>   \midi {
>         \tempo 2=40
>   }
> }
>
> The log file:
>
> Running LilyPond...
> GNU LilyPond 1.6.6
> Now processing: `tmp.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...[3]
> Preprocessing elements... 
> Calculating column positions... warning: Too many clashing notecolumns.  Ignoring them.
>
> paper output to `tmp.tex'...
>
> Interpreting music...
> /tmp/tmp.ly:0:13: warning: No ties were created!:
>   < d1 f, > ~
>               | < d2 f, > r |
>
> MIDI output to `tmp.midi'...
> Track ... 
> Analyzing tmp.tex...
> Running LaTeX...
> DVI output to `tmp.dvi'...
> MIDI output to `tmp.midi'...
>
>
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