Re: New slur/tie behaviour

[Steve D]

"Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden> wrote, regarding ties and rules for 
their placement in chords:

> Here are my rules again for reference:
>
>  sequentially from top to bottom:
>
>    + The topmost tie is always `up'.
>
>    + If there is a vertical gap to the last note above larger
>      than or equal to a fifth (or sixth?), the tie is `up',
>      otherwise it is `down'.
>
>    + The bottommost tie is always `down'.
>
>    Werner

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Hello Werner-- Just out of curiosity, how would your rules above 
accommodate a tied version of the following  voicing of an A 
minor 9 chord, a voicing I tend to use frequently, which has an 
interval of a second internal to the chord rather than at top or 
bottom:

treble clef staff, notes (from top to bottom): e'' c'' b' g'

Wouldn't your rule specify that the c'' and b' would both have 
ties that arc down, since that interval (a second) is smaller 
than a fifth? In this case, the rule Han-Wen mentioned of ties of 
seconds arcing in opposite directions would seem preferable, 
right?

Best wishes,

Steve D