Re: Ties over multiple chords

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 09:15 +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
> Try \set tieWaitForNotes = ##t

Is there any circumstance in which it is useful to have this set false?
That is, why is it not the default? (I never found this and when
typesetting some music that made extensive use of written arpeggiation,
instead I laboriously constructed workarounds ...)

Richard


> 
> Am 11. November 2016 08:59:23 MEZ, schrieb Mojca Miklavec
> <address@hidden>:
>         Hello,
>         
>         I don't know how to explain in proper terms what I want to achieve,
>         but I hope that it will be clear from the example below (I would be
>         grateful for a proper English term for this as well :).
>         
>         I wrote the same thing twice. The second alternative works, but looks
>         ugly to me. I would like to use the first alternative (which is a bit
>         of cheating), but ties don't work properly there, most likely lilypond
>         has problems interpreting where the tie should point to.
>         
>         Is there any better workaround?
>         
>         \version "2.19.30"
>         \language "deutsch"
>         
>         melody = \fixed c' {
>           \time 2/4
>           \key b \major
>         
>           % first alternative: this doesn't work
>           << {f'2~} {s8 d'4.~} {s4 b4~} {s4. g8} >> |
>           <f b d' f'>4. r8 |
>         
>           << {f'2~} {s8 es'4.~} {s4 a4~} {s4. g8} >> |
>           <f a es' f'>4. r8 |
>         
>           % second alternative: this
>         works
>           f'8~ <d' f'>8~ <b d' f'>8~ <g b d' f'>8~ |
>           <f b d' f'>4. r8 |
>         
>           f'8~ <es' f'>8~ <a es' f'>~ <g a es' f'>8~ |
>           <f a es' f'>4. r8 |
>         }
>         
>         \new PianoStaff <<
>           \new Voice = "melody" {
>             \melody
>           }
>                         
>         
>         (I could cheat with slurs, but I have no clue how to use them in this 
> example.)
>         
>         Thank you,
>             Mojca
>         
>         (please CC me)
>         
>         
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