KEITH LYNN <klyn...@comcast.net> writes: > I am having trouble trying to produce a tie between a flat note and a > non flat note of the same pitch.
That sounds like a misunderstanding of what "tie" means. Ties are used for connecting several notes of the same pitch into a single note of the combined duration. However, your problem might be a different terminology/concept problem: > For example, I want to tie a bes to a b, but instead of producing the > tie symbol, it places a natural symbol in front of the second note. > > How do I stop that? Thanks. This sounds like you are confused about LilyPond's input note language. Notes of equal pitch have equal input note names. A bes is not something at the notation height of b with a flat before it. A bes is something that sounds a half note lower than a natural b. Regardless of how it gets printed. So you probably want to write bes ~ bes here. You might want to read the LilyPond tutorial: it is intended to be comparatively compact sequential reading introducing the main LilyPond concepts and get you started. -- David Kastrup