Re: ties over dots

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:

    Mats> According to the documentation, there's a property x-gap
    Mats> to determine the horizontal gap between notehead and tie, with 
    Mats> default value 0.2. Try (untested):
    >> 
    Mats> Staff.Tie \set #'x-gap = #0.4
    >> 
    >> Either I don't understand this, or it doesn't work.  What I did was
    >> add the line:
    >> 
    >> \property Staff.Tie \set #'x-gap = #0.4
    >> 
    >> to the file I sent last night. In the section where I'm setting other
    >> properties. The output looks identical to the original to me.  Is this
    >> what you meant, or should I have done something else?

    Mats> It does work but you may have to increase the argument a bit 
    Mats> to notice how it shortens the ties. You may also want to combine
    Mats> this with 
    Mats> \property Staff.Tie \override #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 0.6)
    Mats> which raises the ties by 0.6 (the unit for all these numbers
    Mats> is the separation between two staff lines).

Great, that works well.

Thanks.

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