Re: ties over dots

[Mats Bengtsson]

>     Mats> According to the documentation, there's a property x-gap
>     Mats> to determine the horizontal gap between notehead and tie, with 
>     Mats> default value 0.2. Try (untested):
> 
>     Mats> Staff.Tie \set #'x-gap = #0.4
> 
> Either I don't understand this, or it doesn't work.  What I did was
> add the line:
> 
> \property Staff.Tie \set #'x-gap = #0.4
> 
> to the file I sent last night. In the section where I'm setting other
> properties. The output looks identical to the original to me.  Is this
> what you meant, or should I have done something else?

It does work but you may have to increase the argument a bit 
to notice how it shortens the ties. You may also want to combine
this with 
\property Staff.Tie \override #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 0.6)
which raises the ties by 0.6 (the unit for all these numbers
is the separation between two staff lines).

   /Mats