Re: New slur/tie behaviour

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > A tie, regardless of being short or long, must not be placed
> > completely between two staff lines if the notes are also between
> > the same two lines.
> 
> It depends.  I think it should, but only in crowded situations.

Yes.

> The number of TCCs is binom(M, #ties). A chord spanning a single
> octave with 4 ties already yields 36000 different possible TCCs, so
> a brute force approach won't possible.  We'd have to use a some
> heuristics to generate a limited number of sensible TCCs, and pick
> the best scoring one of them.

IIRC, I've sent an algorithm to the list a few years ago whether ties
should go up or down, depending on the vertical structure of a chord.
Maybe you can dig it out, and perhaps it helps in providing some
constraints.


    Werner