Re: Ties across voices

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carl Sorensen" <address@hidden>
> To: "Simon Albrecht" <address@hidden>; "Shachar Shemesh"
> <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 4:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Ties across voices
>
>
>>
>>
>> On 6/17/18, 12:14 PM, "Simon Albrecht" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>    On 16.06.2018 20:41, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>>    > The Tie won't tie between the voices and the chord past the voices.
>>
>>    It seems to work if you move the Tie_engraver from Voice to Staff
>> level:
>>
>>    I moved Tie_performer along, since you were talking about the
>> importance
>>    of accurate MIDI for your use case. I don’t use MIDI (or hardly
>> ever) so
>>    I can’t test reasonably, but it should work, I imagine.
>>
>> This looks like the right answer, and one that maybe ought to be
>> documented in a docs snippet.  Lots of people use the LSR trick of
>> hidden notes, when a more straightforward approach is to move the
>> Tie_engraver.
>>
>> I wonder if having the Tie_engraver be in the Staff ought to be the
>> default?  Can anyone see negatives to having it be in the Staff?
>
> If it means ties will tie equal pitch notes in, say, voiceOne with
> others in voiceTwo, both on the same stave, it seems like an excellent
> change.

tieWaitForNote would work worse in several situations.  So would other
things like a choir unison note held over a bar.

-- 
David Kastrup