Re: Melody engraver enhancement

[Ralph Palmer]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> in the attached example, two tied notes (of the same pitch) in different
> bars have their stems placed in different directions by the melody
> engraver. This is very confusing, so the engraver should take ties between
> notes of the same pitch (that is, as opposed to bis~ c for example) into
> account (and use \downStem in case of doubt...).
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Simon


I do not have a copy of Gould, and my copy of Read is not accessible, so I
can't check this, but it does seem as though it would help readability for
musicians. It has been submitted as an enhancement request : Issue 4240 :
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4240

Thanks, Simon,
Ralph