Re: Stem direction with ties

[Per Starbäck]

Per Starbäck <per <at> starback.se> writes:

> but somewhat more strictly my suggestion is to first
> treat ties as beams when determining stem orientation, so no big new
> backtrack for global optimum feature.
> 
> Can anyone think of an example where that would give worse results?

OK, I thought of one myself. If the two tied notes are part of one phrase
each, the phrases can have good reasons to have stems in different
directions, like

\relative c' {
  c8 e g b c, e g b~ | b d f a

}

This I wouldn't like in any other way than how it is done now. Still I think
it could be worthwhile to let them be the same when one of them doesn't have
a strong reason for its preference.