2010/11/14 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>

> Valentin Villenave <valen...@villenave.net> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Means a tie, as indicated by the user.
> >
> > Oh. So, setting tieWaitForNote would disable the "automatic-slurs"
> > feature?
>
> They would be mutually exclusive, and both off by default, resulting in
> a warning instead.
>
> >> Means bad input.  Configurable to be treated as a slur to b.
> >
> > Then it would no longer be "bad input", would it?
>
> Correct.
>
> > My main concern is that such a change would amount to make the input
> > syntax more "fault-tolerant", which isn't the direction we've been
> > taking so far.
>
> As long as it is not the default.
>
> > That being said, unterminated ties are currently allowed and do not
> > produce any warning, so I don't think the current situation is optimal
> > either. If anything, we could at least output a "warning: unfinished
> > tie. A slur will be printed instead".
>
> > How does it seems to you?
>
> I'd rather just warn, unless a specific option is set.  I don't think it
> makes much sense to both warn and typeset a slur.
>

I agree with Marc Hohl - converting wrognly defined ties into slurs should
be done by converters.
However, the behaviour described above by David would be acceptable to me.

cheers,
Jan
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