Such a simple, silly mistake! (and the case is even illustrated on the documentation page).
I had just got into the habit in my mind of placing it _after_ the chord with the modifications rather than _before_ the target, so I automatically placed it _after_ the only chord there was! Thanks, Paul From: Thomas Morley <[email protected]> To: Paul Hodges <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: 28/09/2025 8:47 Subject: Re: Shaping ties between chords, an edge case Am Sa., 27. Sept. 2025 um 19:26 Uhr schrieb Paul Hodges <[email protected]>: > > Shaping individual ties between chords (especially those with adjacent notes) > has always been an issue in LilyPond. Recently (in what I think is a new > page of documentation for 2.25) I discovered > \once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t > which has enabled me to solve virtually all my problems with shaping ties. > > However, I have now hit an instance in which I had hoped this would help, but > it hasn't. In the attached example the shaping specified for the third tie > does not have any effect, and this is true with or without the above command. > (Note that the need for this is more apparent in the context from which this > is lifted.) > > Can anyone suggest how to do it? (I mean, I know I can probably replace the > tie concerned with a single slur and tweak it into shape, but that's not a > general solution.) > > Thanks, > Paul The command \once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t needs to be right before the target chord. See also: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1191 Cheers, Harm
