Re: what's the error?

[David Kastrup]

"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
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> See the attachment for what I want.
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> This is what I code:
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> \relative c'' {
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> <<{bes8 [a]}\\{
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>     \once \set tieWaitForNote = ##t
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>     \grace {c,8~ d~ fis~} <c d fis>4}>>
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> }
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> The error message is "unterminated tie."
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> Someone have a keener eye than I?

\once \set sets tieWaitForNote once at the current point of time.  That
means it will be active for the first grace note but not for the
others.  Consequently it's inactive for d~ which is still followed by
another grace note before the ties are resolved.

-- 
David Kastrup