Re: Tie problem

[Maurizio Tomasi]

Graeme Evans wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a new user of Lilypond, with quite a bit of experience with Score (some
> professional).
>
> I am having problems placing a tie between two bars, the 1st of which 
> contains a whole note, and the second 4 quarter notes (all the same 
> note, obviously.
>
> There is no problem with this in simple form as it would be:
>
> { c1~ c4 c c c}
>
> I run into problems when I put a hairpin crescendo/decrescendo in the 
> whole note bar. The only way I can do this is to use spacer notes to 
> lock the hairpins to, added as a second voice on the same staff. i.e
>
> {<<c1~ \\ {s4 s4\< s4\! \> s4\!}>>
> c4 c c c}
>
> This renders the 2 bars correctly, except that the tie does not print.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graeme
>
>
>
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The reason why Lilypond is not behaving as expected is, when you use 
<<>> Lily creates a new voice (by the way, why are you using "\\"?). 
The solution is to include the note to tie in the <<>> construct as well:

\score {
    \new Staff {
        \relative c' {
            << { c1 ~ c4 }
               { s4 s4\< s4\! \> s4\! s4 } >> c4 c c
        }
    }
}

Regards,
  Maurizio.

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