> > A tie, regardless of being short or long, must not be placed > > completely between two staff lines if the notes are also between > > the same two lines. > > It depends. I think it should, but only in crowded situations.
Yes. > The number of TCCs is binom(M, #ties). A chord spanning a single > octave with 4 ties already yields 36000 different possible TCCs, so > a brute force approach won't possible. We'd have to use a some > heuristics to generate a limited number of sensible TCCs, and pick > the best scoring one of them. IIRC, I've sent an algorithm to the list a few years ago whether ties should go up or down, depending on the vertical structure of a chord. Maybe you can dig it out, and perhaps it helps in providing some constraints. Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user