Re: New slur/tie behaviour

[Steve D]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Hofmeister" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: New slur/tie behaviour


> I agree, I don't recall seeing a printed edition where the ties 
> or slurs
> begin and end on the same staff space if the note is in a 
> space, or on the
> line that the note occupies (which Lilypond now does not do, 
> ie. Lily does
> now avoid the lines).
>
> Walter Hofmeister
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There are some instances, such as when chords are crowded, have 
intervals of a second and so forth, where ties between *interior* 
(not outermost) notes of the chord have ties placed within the 
same staff space as the notes that are being tied, for the sake 
of clarity and readability. But it seems like the default 
behavior should be to place ties (of notes that are in staff 
spaces) in the adjacent staff space (above or below, depending on 
whether the notes are uppermost or lowermost in a chord), rather 
than within the same space as the tied notes.

In addition, this default behavior would remedy the other issue 
that Trevor B. and others have mentioned--instead of three or 
more successively tied notes of the same pitch having their ties 
appear within different spaces (depending on the note durations 
and horizontal spacing of the notes), the ties for the same 
pitches would all be placed within the same staff space.

This behavior seems also to be what is suggested in various books 
on notation, such as Gardner Read's, Gerou and Lusk's, etc. ;-)

-Steve D