Tie Crusade

[Urs Liska]

As some of you will have noticed, Janek yesterday published an article on lilypondblog.org announcing that he intends to make a considerable effort substantially improving LilyPond's tie formatting - one of the fields Lily really can use some updates.
After having collected countless examples of badly formatted ties and having spent countless hours with tweaking ties he decided to give it a serious try.

I'm not posting this to praise Janek but to make sure _everybody_ gets the chance to see that post. While he already has done very thorough research the project is just too big for him alone.

So anybody who is interested in getting better default ties from LilyPond _please_ read his post at http://lilypondblog.org/2013/07/lilypond-tie-crusade and consider joining him. While the most urgent need would be people who analyze and improve the C++ code with him he will also be grateful for any discussion (of design strategies, engraving goals ...) or even examples of badly engraved default ties.

Feedback is welcome on this list, lilypond-devel, the blog post or directly by email to Janek.

Best
Urs