On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 12:48 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Richard, > > > I guess this means it is not a well-known feature. > > Not well-known, likely… but sure seems like a bug and not a feature > to me. =) > > > Does anyone have an idea if there are guidelines which suggest > > what choice should be made? > > It is traditional to place ties on whole notes as if they had stems: > above if the stems would go down, below if the stems would go up. So > the question here reduces to the question of which side the stems > would be on [if there were stems]? > > For middle-line notes, there is no strict rule… but there is a > general consensus that stems shouldn't flip unnecessarily. That means > in this case, the stems would/should go down, and thus the ties would > [all] be above.
That makes sense - it would even be possible for Denemo to work around the, erm, feature but it will be much better to leave it to LilyPond... Richard > > Hope that helps! > Kieren.
