Re: Unexpected "warning: unterminated tie"

[David Kastrup]

Ole V. Villumsen <address@hidden> writes:

> This may not be strictly by the official recommendations. However, I
> had expected it to work.

Anything you base that expectation on?

> \version "2.18.2"
>
> % expected: ties g'-g', b-b and g-g
> % actual: "warning: unterminated tie", no tie g'-g', ties b-b and g-g
>
> \relative c' {
>   << { g'2 ~ g } { s4 b, ~ b2 } \\ { r8 d b g ~ g2 } >>
> }
>
> At the first tilde (~) in the input, Lilypond 2.18.2 says "warning:
> unterminated tie", and indeed that tie is missing from the output.

All before the \\ is in one voice, sharing ties, stems, and other
things.  Multiple differently-timed ties in one voice are not supported
by LilyPond.  It may or may not work with tieWaitForNote set to ##t, but
it would appear to make more sense to put the first two parallel parts
into different voices.

> I got even more surprised (and still unpleasantly so) when removing the
> lower voice and trying with just << { g'2 ~ g } { s4 b, ~ b2 } >>. Now the
> music got typeset on two staves.

Parallel music and implicit voices: that's expected.  I could pick out
the respective manual passage, but then the weather makes me lazy.

> Both the expected ties were there, though, one on each staff.

Sure, because now you had the ties in different voices, even different
staves.

-- 
David Kastrup