Re: ties between voices

[Steve D]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:15:24AM +0200, Joe Neeman wrote:
> 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"
>  }
> }


What a great idea and suggestion! Thank you so much Joe. I'm going to
try this right away on a piano piece with many such between-voice or
multi-voice-to-single-voice ties that has had me stumped for quite a few
weeks now.

Thanks!

Steve D
New Mexico, US