Re: Patch: tie-ing enharmonic variants

[Arno Waschk]

But it does happen in polyphonic piano music, very often to notate one  
hand silently taking over the note form the other hand.

Arno

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:59:14 +0200, Yuval Harel <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:34:55 +0100, Kilian A. Foth  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
> >  > address@hidden writes:
> >  > [...]
> >  > >
> >  > > This changes tie-ing behaviour so that not the exact pitch property
> >  > > of two candidate notes is compared, but the normalized chromatic
> >  > > pitch.  (The old behaviour can, of course, be produced by not using
> >  > > ~ in the first place.)
> >  >
> >  > Does this actually work? IIRC, the Tie code is hard-wired to assume
> >  > that ties are always horizontal.
> >  >
> >
> > You're right, the tie is still horizontal, i.e. it will end half a
> > line too low or too high (I lack the expertise to change tie direction
> > as well). It still looks rather good to me - way better than the
> > alternative (tieing to an invisible note of the appropriate pitch)
> > because that would let the tie end much too soon.
>
> Supporting non-horizontal ties could be good for other purposes too -  
> e.g. a tie may be slanted
> in {\stemUp g2. ~ g2} to avoid the augmentation dot, or in << {<e e'>2 ~  
> <e e'>8} \\ {g2 a} >>
> to avoid the stem. Even if these collisions are not resolved  
> automatically, a manual way to slant the tie could be nice.
> Also, ties can cross staves - but that's probably much less common than  
> tying enharmonic variants.
>
> Yuval
>
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