Re: "Dangling" ties.

[David Kastrup]

"Hwaen Ch'uqi" <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> Is there a way to force LilyPond to engrave ties at the end of a
> snippet of music? I was hoping that \set tieWaitForNote = ##t would
> work, but it too had no results. Here is the snippet in question:
>
> \score {
>   \new PianoStaff <<
>     \new Staff {
>       \relative c' {
>       \key es \major \time 6/8 \clef bass
>       r4. \grace { a16[ bes c] } <des f,>4.~ %123
>       }
>     }
>     \new Staff {
>       \relative c' {
>       \key es \major \time 6/8 \clef bass
>       f,,8 r r \grace { s16 s s } <des f des'>4.~ %123
>       }
>     }
>   >>
> }
>
> Thank you so much.

Ties have two ends.  You need a half-tie instead.  Those are available
under the name \laissezVibrer for the ongoing half-tie (what you want
here) and \repeatTie for the arriving half-tie.

-- 
David Kastrup