Re: individual tie directions in chords

[plutek]

> On Friday 26 September 2003 04:57 pm, you wrote:
>> in the following:
>>
>> \score {
>> \notes \relative c' {
>> <f g c>~<f g c>
>> }
>> \paper { raggedright = ##t}
>> }
>>
>> it seems clear to me that the tie between g's should go up, to avoid
>> colliding with the tie between f's. unfortunately, that does not
>> follow the rule of curving away from staff center.
>>
>> i have not been able to find a way of controlling tie DIRECTION for
>> individual notes in a chord. i suppose the method of placing the tie
>> engraver at thread level (shown in regression/tie-chord-partial.ly)
>> would work, but in the context of a succession of chords, where only
>> one needs this treatment, isn't it difficult to switch between that
>> and the regular use of the tie engraver?
>>
>> is there no simpler way to do this?
>
> I don't know whether it's simpler or not, but the best thing to
> do IMHO is to render some or all of the chord as different
> voices.  daveA

thanks, david...... would you be kind enough to give me an example of how
to do this? i'm having trouble figuring out how to use different voices
but still have it look like a chord rather than like polyphony.

thanks!
-p