Re: Tie engraver

[Cynthia Karl]

> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:46:29 +1000
> From: Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>
> To: Urs Liska <address@hidden>, address@hidden, David
>       Nalesnik <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Tie engraver
> 
> Hi Urs and David,
> 
> Thanks so much. Yes, my chords are in voices so the slurs all face the same 
> direction accordingly. I was completely unaware of this aspect of engraving. 
> I had better study more scores and order that copy of Behind Bars!
> 
> But then the question becomes transformed - can you tell the tie engraver for 
> a voice to override its default behaviour, even though that may be 
> technically incorrect? I have literally several hundred I need to tweak.

As I recall from your initial query, the tie pattern depends only on the number 
of notes in the chord.  It would be easy to write a bash shell script, call it 
“x”, that you could invoke with the notes in your chord and it would respond 
with the chord with the ties as you want them, e.g.:

$ x c e g
<c^~ e^~ g_~>

You could then copy and paste the output into your lilypond file.

It seems that it would be simple to do the same thing in Scheme so that you 
could do a similar invocation directly in your lilypond file and the 
appropriate chord notation would be generated, eliminating the copy & paste 
step.

If you want the shell script, let me know.  Unfortunately not for the Scheme 
version.