Re: Issue 1396 in lilypond: Enhancement: an option to turn unterminated ties into slurs

[Bernard Hurley]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:43:41AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>
> Comment #3 on issue 1396 by percival.music.ca: Enhancement: an option to  
> turn unterminated ties into slurs
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1396
>
>> Well, one could make the opposite argument: what's the point in *not*  
>> treating a~b as a slur?
>
> It complicates life for programmers, and complicates life for users by  
> making the input syntax more ambiguous.
>

Agreed

>> (At least, from a "lax" user's point of view, as Johan mentioned in his 
>> first email.)
>

I don't thonk it is a good idea to try to accomodate "lax" users. Take a piece 
of code like:
         {c'2 ~ d' c'}  
This could be left in a lily file by a "lax" user after much editing who is 
quite satisfied by the final output. If the proposed change were made then a 
slur would "magically" appear. In short "lax" syntax can couse as many problems 
as it solves for "lax" users.

Bernard