Re: Tie almost invisible before line break

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 17/09/2022 à 20:24, Knute Snortum a écrit :
> I have run into a situation that may be a bug or it may be I'm not
> doing something correctly.  I have a \voiceOne note at a line break
> where the tie becomes nearly invisible.
>
> %%%
> \version "2.23.12"
>
> \paper {
>    ragged-right = ##t
>    indent = 0
> }
>
> \relative {
>    \voiceOne
>    d''8( c4 b a e'8~ | \break
>    e8)
> }
> %%%
>
> If you zoom way in on the tie of the e note, you can see a tiny bump;
> that is the tie.  The only way I found to fix this is with
> \alterBroken and control-points, but this is a very brittle solution
> that will need to change if the measures get realigned.
>
> %%%
> createBrokenTie =
>    \alterBroken control-points #'(
>                                    ((1.5 . 2) (2 . 2.5) (2.5 . 2.5) (3 . 2))
>                                    ((4 . 2) (4.5 . 2.5) (5 . 2.5) (5.5 . 2))
>                                  ) \etc
>
> \relative {
>    \voiceOne
>    d''8( c4 b a e'8-\createBrokenTie ~ | \break
>    e8)
> }
> %%%
>
> Is this a bug?  Is there a better way to deal with it?
>
> --
> Knute Snortum


Yeah, known long-standing issue.

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/298

The workaround is increasing minimum-length.


\version "2.23.12"

\paper {
  ragged-right = ##t
  indent = 0
}

\relative {
  \voiceOne
  d''8( c4 b a e'8\tweak minimum-length 5 ~ | \break
  e8)
}

Jean