Re: Ties over multiple chords

[David Kastrup]

Mojca Miklavec <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11 November 2016 at 09:49, Richard Shann wrote:
>> On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 09:15 +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
>>> Try \set tieWaitForNotes = ##t
>>
>> Is there any circumstance in which it is useful to have this set false?
>> That is, why is it not the default? (I never found this and when
>> typesetting some music that made extensive use of written arpeggiation,
>> instead I laboriously constructed workarounds ...)
>
> The second alternative in my example is one use case when one might
> want to have this set to false.
>
> If it is set to false, one can simply do:
>     <g b d' f'>8~ <f b d' f'>4.
>
> If it is true, one has to put a tie on each separate pitch:
>     <g b~ d'~ f'~>8 <f b d' f'>4.
> else g will wait forever and tie to some random pitch somewhere else.

Actually, I think that even tieWaitForNotes will stop a chord tie as
soon as one note is completed.

-- 
David Kastrup