Re: How to write this note from chaconne?

[Simon Albrecht]

On 08.03.2018 02:17, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote:
> it's written in a way that would break the "normal" rules about
> how to use it (it wouldn't fit on the previous bar so a tie to a 8th
> note starting the bar is what I would have written)

Rules that have evolved in the course of the 19th and 20th century and 
are certainly alien to the 18th.

If you’re trying to turn this into an ‘authoritative’ representation as 
LilyPond code, fortunately there’s the option of coding it as a dotted 
note and if necessary displaying it with ties using the 
Completion_heads_engraver – a great tool for ancient music.
And once there is a LilyPond engraver that can produce the original way 
of writing it, there will be no need of adjusting the content.

Best, Simon