Re: Default tie placement, tie not visible

[Steve D]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:20:53PM -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:13:20PM -0700, Steve D wrote:
> >>It seems that ideally the tie should arc *over* the flat symbol in order
> >>to extend to the notehead that is being tied
>
> [...] If you want to add a feature request to the tracker, please 
> (re-)send a minimally small example with some text explaining the issue. 
>    This issue would have much lower priority than the bugs, though.

- From my point of view, the bug, if there is a bug besides the fact
that the tie is not visible because it is so short, is that the tie
stops short of an accidental symbol that is *not* associated with the
note being tied, and in addition, that note happens to be the top (or
bottom) note of a chord.

It seems to me that, ideally, when either the top or bottom note of a
chord is tied, the tie should extend from notehead to notehead, or from
the first notehead to an accidental (if there is one) preceding the
second notehead, *if* and only if that accidental belongs to the note
being tied instead of another note in close proximity (another note that
is perhaps an interval of a second or third from the note being tied).
Otherwise, if it is a top or bottom note of a chord, the tie should
(again, merely from my current perspective) arc over (or under) the
accidental symbol of another note in order to nearly connect to the
notehead of the note that is being tied. (if that makes any sense) :-)

I can imagine cases where the current behavior of LilyPond (2.11.13 in
this case) would seem appropriate, *if* the tie is between two notes
that are *not* at the top or bottom of a chord.

Best wishes,

Steve