Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> writes: > On 11 November 2016 at 09:49, Richard Shann wrote: >> On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 09:15 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: >>> Try \set tieWaitForNotes = ##t >> >> Is there any circumstance in which it is useful to have this set false? >> That is, why is it not the default? (I never found this and when >> typesetting some music that made extensive use of written arpeggiation, >> instead I laboriously constructed workarounds ...) > > The second alternative in my example is one use case when one might > want to have this set to false. > > If it is set to false, one can simply do: > <g b d' f'>8~ <f b d' f'>4. > > If it is true, one has to put a tie on each separate pitch: > <g b~ d'~ f'~>8 <f b d' f'>4. > else g will wait forever and tie to some random pitch somewhere else.
Actually, I think that even tieWaitForNotes will stop a chord tie as soon as one note is completed. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
