ties between voices

[Joe Neeman]

We've had a few questions about ties between voices (especially ties from polyphony to chords). It seems that you can get this behaviour simply by moving the Tie_engraver form the Voice context to the Staff context. Note that the Tie_engraver was probably designed to live in the Voice context, so it may not work perfectly, but if people will test it and report problems then it will get fixed.

\version "2.10.0"

\layout {
  \context {
    \Staff
    \consists "Tie_engraver"
  }
  \context {
    \Voice
    \remove "Tie_engraver"
  }
}

\new Staff {
  \relative {
    <<
      {a' b~ c d} \\
      {a, b b' c}
    >>
  }
}