----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Hofmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New slur/tie behaviour
I agree, I don't recall seeing a printed edition where the ties
or slurs
begin and end on the same staff space if the note is in a
space, or on the
line that the note occupies (which Lilypond now does not do,
ie. Lily does
now avoid the lines).
Walter Hofmeister
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There are some instances, such as when chords are crowded, have
intervals of a second and so forth, where ties between *interior*
(not outermost) notes of the chord have ties placed within the
same staff space as the notes that are being tied, for the sake
of clarity and readability. But it seems like the default
behavior should be to place ties (of notes that are in staff
spaces) in the adjacent staff space (above or below, depending on
whether the notes are uppermost or lowermost in a chord), rather
than within the same space as the tied notes.
In addition, this default behavior would remedy the other issue
that Trevor B. and others have mentioned--instead of three or
more successively tied notes of the same pitch having their ties
appear within different spaces (depending on the note durations
and horizontal spacing of the notes), the ties for the same
pitches would all be placed within the same staff space.
This behavior seems also to be what is suggested in various books
on notation, such as Gardner Read's, Gerou and Lusk's, etc. ;-)
-Steve D
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