[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Greetings, > > a while back I asked lilypond-user how to engrave a tie between > enharmonic variants, such as g sharp in one bar and a flat in the next > after a key change. The reponse was that not only does lilypond not do > this, but you cannot even typeset the tie manually by \overriding > something. I was also told that there had been a discussion about the > question previously, but I cannot find it in the archives - therefore > allow me to make my proposition here. > > I feel that lilypond should not silently refuse to tie enharmonic > variants if the user explicitly requests it. Choral music is > frequently notated like this, to help singers through key changes that > involve shifting from sharp to flat or vice versa. In keyboard music, > there is no difference between enharmonic variants at all, since there > is only one key for both. I therefore propose the following patch: > > > This changes tie-ing behaviour so that not the exact pitch property > of two candidate notes is compared, but the normalized chromatic > pitch. (The old behaviour can, of course, be produced by not using > ~ in the first place.)
Does this actually work? IIRC, the Tie code is hard-wired to assume that ties are always horizontal. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
