Re: Adjusting the upper tie of an octave

[Knute Snortum]

Thanks to all who replied to this, especially David Nalesnik.  His shapeTieColumn function has been submitted to the openlilylib.  And I can continue typesetting Pictures at an Exhibition!

Knute Snortum

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On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:36 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Knute,

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Knute Snortum <address@hidden> wrote:

I'm having trouble getting shapeTieColumn to apply to ties that are not after breaks.  Is this function only for broken ties?  If so, I don't have a solution to my problem.  If not, what am I doing wrong?

\version "2.18.2"

\include "notation-snippets/shaping-bezier-curves/shape-tie-column/definition.ily"

\relative c' {

  <e bes' es>1 ~

  \shapeTieColumn #'( 

                      ( () ((0 . -1) (0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . -1)) ) 

                      ( () ((0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . 0)) )

                      ( () ((0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . 0)) ) )

  %-- only works when I uncomment this --% \break

  | q

}

The () in each line refers to the first broken piece, or to the whole tie if unbroken.   So, when applied to an unbroken tie, you're asking for no displacement, as () is shorthand for ((0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . 0)),  Just omit the () for each piece.

If you had three broken pieces per tie (not that that's particularly likely), you would add a number-pair-list to represent the third group.

HTH,

David