Re: placement of ties & slurs

[Thomas Morley]

Am Sa., 14. Nov. 2020 um 17:37 Uhr schrieb E. Hoffmann <erichhoffmann@gmx.de>:
>
> Hello together,
>
> I am fairly new to lilypond, so it might well be that I just got confused in 
> the
> documentation which I appreciate, but find it sometimes difficult to
> follow. Hope this question has not been answered a 100 times.
>
>     When I insert ties or slurs, lilypond places them above or below.  
> Normally
> this is right, but sometimes I want the tie or slur placed differently, just
> like I can decide the direction of the stem  with \stemUp and \stemDown.
>
>     I have a sheet music here, accordion, by an Adolf Götz, called 
> "Hokuspokus".
> There are chords like <a' e''>1 stretched over several bars.  It would be
> helpful if I could place a slur above _and_ below those <a' e''>1 <a' e''>1 
> <a'
> e''>1 &c.  Is this possible?
>
> TIA Erich
>
>
>

You rather want Ties, not Slurs

{
  %% TIES
  <a' e''>1~
  <a' e''>1~
  q~
  q
  %% SLURS
  \set doubleSlurs = ##t
  <a' e''>1(
  <b' f''>)
}


HTH,
 Harm