Re: Last note of a first alternative is a tie to the first note in the repeat; how to engrave this?

[David Wright]

On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 21:27:53 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> 
>   I must be missing something obvious here.
> 
>   The last note of a first alternative is a tie to the first note in the 
> repeat.
> 
>   Lilypond 2.22.2 complains:
> 
> La_Bamba.ly:67:40: warning: unterminated tie
>       r8 f'' f'' f'' f''4^. f''8^. e''
>                                        ~  | % m26
> 
> Thanks in advance for pointing out what I missed in the documentation...

Replace that tie with \laissezVibrer. It's on the second page of
Ties in NR, around p59 (I'm using 2.23 docs). It's the complement
of \repeatTie, and the difficulty with looking up these terms has
been commented on here quite recently.

> My engraving, my Lilypond source and the 8notes.com's Brass Quartet
> arrangement of "La Bamba" are attached.
> 
>   The problem occurs at bar 26 in the first trumpet part.

The 8notes's tie is far too long.

Cheers,
David.