Re: sponsoring better tied chords?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

VSD wrote:
> All,
>
> it seems that Lilypond still manages the tied chords poorly, and the 
> ties  in chords collide very often.
>
> e.g. see:
>
> http://personales.ya.com/v_s_d/tied_chords.png
>
> imho this problem should be solved to avoid "poor looking" spots in the  
> otherwise gorgeously engraved lilypond scores, so I would be willing to  
> sponsor a feature which helps to improve this issue.
>
> Anyone would like to join forces (budget) with me to help me to afford 
> the  sponsoring? :)

> My suggestion would be to extend the TieColumn object to have a  
> "direction" property for each tie, e.g. in a list. Then the user could  
> override it's own positioning "algorithm" more or less like this:

The solution that you propose can relatively easily be added, but I 
think it is a poor man's substitute for the real thing, which is 
automatic formatting.

I think that it should be possible to automate it, and I would gladly 
work on this as a sponsored feature. It would be a somewhat bigger 
feature (perhaps 800 eur, I'm not sure yet), as the Tie formatting needs 
to be redone. I'll have a look this week what is involved. If there is a 
need for more sponsors, I can put up an announcement on lilypond.org.

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