Re: Bad tie placement

[Ralph Palmer]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Abraham Lee <address@hidden>
wrote:

> My LP Friends,
>
> While scoring a song, I noticed a rather poor tie placement in a chord.
> Here's the code:
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> music = \relative c'{
>  \key aes \major
>  \time 2/2
>  \numericTimeSignature
>  \partial 2 g'4 ( f ) |
>  <c ees>4 ees <c ees> <bes ees> |
>  bes'2. ees,4 |
>  <des ees-\tweak color #red ~ aes~>1_( |
>  <c ees aes>2. ) \bar "|."
> }
>
> \paper {
>  paper-width = 7\in
>  ragged-last = ##f
>  indent = 0
> }
> \header {
>  tagline = ##f
> }
>
> \markup "\voiceOne, ragged-last=##f, bad tie placement"
> \score {
>  { \voiceOne \music }
> }
>
> \markup "\voiceOne, ragged-last=##t, normal voiced tie placement"
> \score {
>  \layout {
>    ragged-last = ##t
>  }
>  { \voiceOne \music }
> }
>
> \markup "(default voice), ragged-last=##f, normal non-voiced tie placement"
> \score {
>  { \music }
> }
>
> See the attached file for a picture of the above issue (bad tie indicated
> in red).
> 1. In the first system, and in my song, all the notes need to be
> \voiceOne. The default placement of the ties is "up", but the placement is
> horrid on the ees in the last two measures. If I manually flip it down,
> then it looks great (which I've gone with). This appears to be an issue
> with the length of the system because ... (see #2).
>
> 2. When I shorten the system (i.e., ragged-last = ##f), then the default,
> voiced tie placement is as I would expect it.
>
> 3. When I make the system be the same length as the original, and either
> manually switch the direction or remove the explicit \voiceOne, then the
> downward tie also places perfectly.
>
> 4. (Not shown) If you extend the paper-width to be something like 10\in,
> then the default, voiced tie is once again placed correctly (but not at
> 9.99\in).
>
> I guess all I'm saying is that from paper-width of 5.8\in to 9.99\in, and
> forcing everything into \voiceOne, the ties are placed incorrectly than
> outside that range. Any ideas what's causing it?
>
> Regards,
> Abraham


Thanks, Abraham. Submitted as Issue 4167 :
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4167

Ralph