This is fine now. Thx, David. I work really hard to make LilyPond ties look the way I want. My current settings are the following:
\override Tie.details.height-limit = #1.25 \override Tie.details.ratio = #0.25 \override Tie.details.between-length-limit = #1 \override Tie.details.wrong-direction-offset-penalty = #10 \override Tie.details.min-length = #2 \override Tie.details.min-length-penalty-factor = #30 \override Tie.details.center-staff-line-clearance = #0.05 \override Tie.details.tip-staff-line-clearance = #0.05 \override Tie.details.staff-line-collision-penalty = #0 \override Tie.details.dot-collision-clearance = #0 \override Tie.details.dot-collision-penalty = #0 \override Tie.details.note-head-gap = #0.15 \override Tie.details.stem-gap = #0.15 \override Tie.details.tie-column-monotonicity-penalty = #100 \override Tie.details.tie-tie-collision-penalty = #25 \override Tie.details.tie-tie-collision-distance = #0.5 \override Tie.details.horizontal-distance-penalty-factor = #0 \override Tie.details.same-dir-as-stem-penalty = #20 \override Tie.details.vertical-distance-penalty-factor = #10 \override Tie.details.intra-space-threshold = #0 \override Tie.details.outer-tie-length-symmetry-penalty-factor = #0 \override Tie.details.outer-tie-vertical-distance-symmetry-penalty-factor = #0 \override Tie.details.outer-tie-vertical-gap = #0 \override Tie.details.single-tie-region-size = #4 \override Tie.details.skyline-padding = #0.05 \override Tie.details.multi-tie-region-size = #1 \override Tie.line-thickness = #0.25 \override Tie.thickness = #2 I'm quite satisfied with those settings, but lately I discovered one situaton in which one of the ties looks not the way I want: { \time 3/8 \voiceOne g'4~ g'8~ g'4~ g'8~ g'4.~ g'4~ g'8 } ... and to my discontent the fifth tie is raised by 0.25 because of the dot. I don't want this dot to have any impact on the vertical position of the following tie. Overriding Tie.details.dot-collision-clearance doesn't help. How can I fix this? Of course using \shape is not an option, as I'm looking for general solution (global override). I begin to think that this is hardcoded.... _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user