Re: Curious thing about ties

[Robert Schmaus]

> On 14 Nov 2016, at 22:27, Brian Barker <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> At 21:09 14/11/2016 +0100, Robert Schmaus wrote:
>> something I just came across while pondering away: in the following snippet, 
>> there are two ties across barlines.
>> [...]
>> I've wondered why in the first instance, the tie is a down-tie, while in the 
>> second it's an up-tie (see attached screenshot).
> 
> (Your snippet doesn't match your output, in fact.)

Right ... as I was typing the mail, I thought I'd try if this also appears with 
different notes and started to change the snippet in the mail before I 
realised, that I should probably do that in frescobaldi. Forgot to restore the 
snippet ... I'm not multi-threaded I guess. 

> If you repeat the motif, the ties appear to alternate down, up, down, up ...
> 
> Brian Barker 

Interesting - so, if it alternates, maybe it *does* have to do with visual 
balance after all ..

Robert