Re: Tie bug in Lilypond 2.7.18 for Windows still not resolved

[Erik Sandberg]

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 14.07, liang seng wrote:
> Hi, here is the source file again:
> \version "2.7.23"
> \relative c' {
> <c' e,>1 < d g,> <c c,>~<c c,>
> <g g,>4 <g g,>8. <g g,>16 <g g,>4 <g g,>
> <g g,>1~<g g,>~<g g,>  r2 <g e>2 r2 <g e>
> \bar ".|." }
>
> Yes, I do agree that it looks good. However, the problem is they look good
> only in polyphony. In my case, I cannot change the polyphony or break notes
> into two voices since I have to faithfully follow the Urtext. Your solution
> also has limitations for string writing. As notes belonging to the same or
> different stems mean that they are performed differently.
> Thanks.

I think formulated myself poorly. What I meant, was that in your case, you can 
substitute
<c c,>1~<c c,>
for
<<{c1~c}\\ {c, c}>>

What I meant with the half notes, is that
<c c,>2~<c c,>
in fact _does_ look good (therefore only whole notes are problematic, and the 
above fix is lossless since it doesn't change any visible stem directions)

However, there are still problems with stuff like
<c c,>1 ~ <c c,> ~ <c c,>2
but again, I don't know what's considered beautiful in those cases.

BTW, you can probably use \hideNotes tricks to get polyphonic ties for chords 
(create invisible, tied, polyphonic voices, and non-tied chords)

-- 
Erik