Re: Ties, distance from barline at a system break

[Robert Blackstone]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your advice and your ME. Compiling it out of the box does not give a result that is better than the untweaked code. It will take some time for me to become familiar with the possibilities of this \shapeII.

One question: why does it insert an empty bar at the beginning. I can't see what causes it and how I can get rid of it, which I would like to do.

Could you help me out here?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards, 

Robert

On 5 Oct 2016, at 14:12 , Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Robert,

Well, I don't have 2.18, so I don't know if this is available to you, but if you can use the openlilylib bezier shaping code, you can have very fine control using the \shapeII function.

\version "2.19.48"

{

  \time 2/4 \key des \major \omit Staff.TimeSignature

  \override Tie.minimum-length-after-break = #13

  \shapeII #'((() () () (-0.6 . 0))

              ((0.9 . 0) (p 20 0.4) (p 20 0.4) ())

              ) Tie

  

  ges'2~ | \break

  ges'2

}

This is far more tedious than Pierre's solution, but it sure works and you can tune it to the approval of your professional engraver friend!

Andrew

On 5 October 2016 at 20:07, Robert Blackstone wrote:

Recently a friend, professional engraver (non-LilyPond), looking with a very critical eye at some of my LilyPond trials, pointed out that when there is a tie, interrupted by a system break, the distance from tie to barline and from whatever sits at the beginning of the staff to tie is a bit too small.