Re: Reverse-direction ties?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Dave LaDelfa wrote:

> The workaround in other software I've used (predominantly MusicPress) is to
> manually set each tie in the "wrong" direction. The problem with this is that
> once you transpose the notes (e.g. to extract a horn or clarinet part) you have
> to go through and manually redo any of the ties whose notes have crossed the
> center line and flipped stem direction. This seems like it would be a horrendous
> nightmare in Lilypond due to the way the scores and parts typically derive from
> the same notestream.

Hi,

have a look at lily/tie.cc, get_default_direction().  I can softcode 
this so you can access this as a user - as a sponsored mini-feature (for 
40 eur.)

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