Greetings All, For other learners reading this thread in the future, I just thought I would mention that since the details property of Tie is an association list (alist), you can specify the values in Scheme in a way that I personally find more readable and less noisy. Here's the syntax, just using the Tie default values:
\override Tie.details = #'((ratio . 0.333) (center-staff-line-clearance . 0.6) (tip-staff-line-clearance . 0.45) (note-head-gap . 0.2) (stem-gap . 0.35) (height-limit . 1.0) (horizontal-distance-penalty-factor . 10) (same-dir-as-stem-penalty . 8) (min-length-penalty-factor . 26) (tie-tie-collision-distance . 0.45) (tie-tie-collision-penalty . 25.0) (intra-space-threshold . 1.25) (outer-tie-vertical-distance-symmetry-penalty-factor . 10) (outer-tie-length-symmetry-penalty-factor . 10) (vertical-distance-penalty-factor . 7) (outer-tie-vertical-gap . 0.25) (multi-tie-region-size . 3) (single-tie-region-size . 4) (between-length-limit . 1.0)) Refer to NR Section 5.2.6 Modifying alists. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: lilypond-user On Behalf Of Karol Majewski Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2016 7:07 AM Subject: Re: Tie settings question 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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user