Re: Ties between enharmonic pitches?

[Jonas Lindström]

2002-12-23 00:19 skrev Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > RZ> I realize that we often see tied enharmonic notes in printed music, but 
> > RZ> I sort of agree with the main developers that it is an impossible 
> > RZ> construct (the notes ARE NOT the same note)
> >
> > Some types of pipe organs have different keys for both sharps and flats.
>
>
> In which case the proper notation is a a slur, not a tie, IMO.


OK, I can live with that. After some tweaking, I got the output I 
wanted. So I am happy :-)

The solution wasn't exactly straight-forward, though. What I wanted to 
do was something like this:

\score {
    \notes \relative c' {
        \time 3/4
        \clef violin
        \addlyrics
        \notes { f4( a as ~ | )gis a c }
        \context Lyrics \lyrics { Li -- ly -- pond }
    }
    \paper { linewidth = -1 }
}

When this didn't work, I tried to replace the tie with a slur as you 
suggested:

        \notes { f4( a as( | ))gis a c }

But I cannot nest the slurs. (Why not?) So my third attempt was:

        \notes { f4\( a as( | )\)gis a c }

Now the notes look OK, but the lyrics need to be fixed.

        \notes { f4\( \melisma a as( | )\)gis \melismaEnd a c }

As I said, the output now looks fine. But I do consider it a workaround. 
Semantically it is quite different from my initial attempt. Perhaps 
there is a better way?

God jul!
Merry Christmas!
--
Jonas Lindström