Ties and repeats

[Frank Wuest]

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?

Thanks,

Frank