Re: Ties and repeats

[David Kastrup]

Frank Wuest <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm currently transforming the bass part of a big band arrangement (8
> pages, boo!)
> into a more usable form. That means using a bunch of repeats with
> alternatives, plus
> ties across these alternatives. 
>
> Now I know that regular ties don't work from the end of an alternative
> to the beginning
> of the repeat, but I found \laissezVibrer to be good enough for me. It
> would probably be useful
> to add a pointer to that in the documentation on repeats.
>
>
> I have a minor problem in one place where I have a tie from the end of
> the first alternative
> to the beginning of the repeat but no tie before the beginning of the repeat. 
>
>
> I'd like to get something like \repeatTie with parentheses akin to
> cautionary accidentals.
> Is there a way to accomplish this?

Well, if you include a rather horrific bug workaround, you can do this
with something like

{ c'1-\tweak RepeatTieColumn.cause ##f \parenthesize \repeatTie }


-- 
David Kastrup