Ties over multiple chords

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

I don't know how to explain in proper terms what I want to achieve,
but I hope that it will be clear from the example below (I would be
grateful for a proper English term for this as well :).

I wrote the same thing twice. The second alternative works, but looks
ugly to me. I would like to use the first alternative (which is a bit
of cheating), but ties don't work properly there, most likely lilypond
has problems interpreting where the tie should point to.

Is there any better workaround?

\version "2.19.30"
\language "deutsch"

melody = \fixed c' {
  \time 2/4
  \key b \major

  % first alternative: this doesn't work
  << {f'2~} {s8 d'4.~} {s4 b4~} {s4. g8} >> |
  <f b d' f'>4. r8 |

  << {f'2~} {s8 es'4.~} {s4 a4~} {s4. g8} >> |
  <f a es' f'>4. r8 |

  % second alternative: this works
  f'8~ <d' f'>8~ <b d' f'>8~ <g b d' f'>8~ |
  <f b d' f'>4. r8 |

  f'8~ <es' f'>8~ <a es' f'>~ <g a es' f'>8~ |
  <f a es' f'>4. r8 |
}

\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Voice = "melody" {
    \melody
  }
>>

(I could cheat with slurs, but I have no clue how to use them in this example.)

Thank you,
    Mojca

(please CC me)

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