Re: Make Tie a Slur

[Pavel Roskin]

Quoting Nils <address@hidden>:

> Hello,
>
> I have 70 pieces with ties and slurs here. They are already in Lilypond
> with the correct syntax.
>
> Now my publisher says he wants that ties look like slurs.
> I couldn't disagree more but I have no choice here.
>
> Any suggestions how make the ties look like slurs without changing them
> all manually?

It may be possible to write an engraver that would get tie events,  
hide ties and create slurs instead.  But I see little motivation to do  
something that won't improve music typesetting.

You may want to replace ties with macros that can expand to a slur or  
to a tie.

%% Insane publisher
%tieStart = (
%tieEnd = )

% Sane publisher
tieStart = ~
tieEnd = {}

{ c'' \tieStart c'' \tieEnd }

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin