Re: Ties on series of tied notes on center line flipping direction (randomly?)

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 12:48 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> > I guess this means it is not a well-known feature.
> 
> Not well-known, likely… but sure seems like a bug and not a feature
> to me.  =)
> 
> > Does anyone have an idea if there are guidelines which suggest
> > what choice should be made?
> 
> It is traditional to place ties on whole notes as if they had stems:
> above if the stems would go down, below if the stems would go up. So
> the question here reduces to the question of which side the stems
> would be on [if there were stems]?
> 
> For middle-line notes, there is no strict rule… but there is a
> general consensus that stems shouldn't flip unnecessarily. That means
> in this case, the stems would/should go down, and thus the ties would
> [all] be above.

That makes sense - it would even be possible for Denemo to work around
the, erm, feature but it will be much better to leave it to LilyPond...

Richard


> 
> Hope that helps!
> Kieren.