Re: Problem with shaping chord ties held over several measures

[Keith OHara]

Knute Snortum <ksnortum <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I'm having a problem shaping ties of chords after more than one measure.  I 
have an internal voice that comes in on the third measure and the ties go 
right through it.  \shape doesn't seem powerful enough to handle this (at 
least I don't know the syntax).  Here's what the measures should look like:
> 

\shape would be great for this, but there is a bug 
 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1789
preventing it from working on any note but the first in a chord.
 <g-\shape #'((0.5 . 0)(8 . -1)(-8 . -1)(0 . 0)) ~ c'~ f'^~>2 q 

You can flip on tie up, if you indicate the ties for each note in the chord:

\new Staff { \time 2/4 \clef bass
  << 
     \new Voice { \voiceThree
     s2 * 2
     | d'8[( e' c' e']
     | d'[ e' c' e'])
   } \new Voice { \voiceFour
     <g c' f'>2~ q~
     <g~ c'~ f'^~>2 q
     } >> }