Re: tenuto/tie collision

[Jonathan Kulp]

Eric Flesher wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm sure this has been addressed elsewhere, although my search of the 
> forum turns up negative: It seems that in some instances the program 
> will default to a tie placement such that it is bound to collide with 
> certain articulations, such as tenuto marks. It appears as if ties are 
> lowered for notes on spaces (e.g. the B5), yet they are higher for notes 
> on lines (the 5). I would imagine this is to avoid tie endpoints on 
> lines when such notes appear within the staff, yet one ends up with two 
> different tie appearances, i.e. ties wholly between noteheads (the first 
> measure) and ties above and just slightly off-centered from noteheads 
> (the second measure). The previous would correspond, for instance, to 
> Vinci's recommendations for tie endpoints (see _Die Notenschrift_), 
> whereas the latter corresponds to Gardner Read.
>
>
> Can one _easily_ override the problem in the latter measure, without 
> having to tweak tie end-points or offsets? (I have done both in the 
> past.) The ideal would be to create a global behavior in which ties 
> appear either a) wholly between noteheads (this would require offsetting 
> the left tie end-point to the right of augmentation dots), as per Vinci, 
> or b) to raise ties so that they appear above tenuto marks. This latter 
> occurs above the A5 with the augmentation dot, and I'm not sure why only 
> it has the raised tie, although I suppose it has something to do with 
> the dot itself.
>
> Thanks,
> EF

You might try the tweaks covered in Learning Manual 4.5.3 "Real Music 
Example," which has an instance of a tie that needs to be raised to 
avoid collision with something.

Jon
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