Re: dashed ties and line breaks

[David Nalesnik]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 8:37 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Or, of course, the version as a tweak, not requiring you to specify "Tie":
>>>
>>> \version "2.17.6"
>>>
>>> \relative c'' {
>>>   c1-\alterBroken dash-definition #'( ((0 1 0.4 0.75)) ((0 1 1 1)) )
>>>      ~
>>>   c1~
>>>   \break
>>>   c
>>> }
>>
>> @ David (K)
>> Sorry, but with this coding no dashed Tie is printed and the terminal 
>> returns:
>>
>> warning: not a spanner
>>
>>      ~
>
> Oops.  Don't have the time to analyse this one right now, but I think
> this is something that _should_ work.
>

The problem appears to be that 'span-direction is not set for tie events.

At the moment I'm not sure what the best way is around the problem.

-David