Shape individual ties in chords - Revision history

Lemzwerg: Make output look good in LilyPond PDF documentation, too, avoiding bad page breaks

2025-12-11T06:14:57Z

Make output look good in LilyPond PDF documentation, too, avoiding bad page breaks

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	To shape individual ties in chords use the method demonstrated below.		To shape individual ties in chords use the method demonstrated below.

	<lilypond version="2.24" ~~full~~>		<lilypond version="2.24" >
	~~\paper~~ { ~~tagline = ##f }~~		{
			\textMark "Chords can be tied note by note."
	\~~markup~~ "Chords can be tied note by note"		<c'~ e'~ g'~ c''~>2 q

	{ <c'~ e'~ g'~ c''~>2 q }

	~~\markup \wordwrap {~~
	~~Affecting those ties with "\\shape" will not succeed, because TieColumn positions~~
	~~them on its own behalf and more or less ignores the "\\shape-input".~~
	~~You may surpress this by setting 'positioning-done true. Alas, 'positioning-done~~
	~~is an internal property, setting it true means: all positioning is done, don't~~
	~~do anything further. So you better take care you really did. See the example~~
	~~below where this is missed: All directions are down and the thickness is not~~
	~~accurate:~~
	}		}

	{		{
			\textMark \markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 3) \wordwrap {
			Modifying those ties with \typewriter "\\shape" does not succeed,
			because \typewriter TieColumn positions them on its own behalf,
			ignoring \typewriter "\\shape" input more or less. You may
			circumvent this by setting \typewriter positioning-done to
			\typewriter "#t" – alas, \typewriter positioning-done is an
			internal property, and setting it to \typewriter "#t" means: all
			positioning is done, don’t do anything further. The next example
			demonstrates a case where the positioning is not finished: all tie
			directions are down, and the thickness is not accurate.
			}
	<c'~ e'~ g'~ c''~>2		<c'~ e'~ g'~ c''~>2
	\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t		\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t
	q		q
	}		}

	~~\markup "To cure that, enter ties with explicit direction-modifiers"~~

	{		{
			\textMark "To fix that, enter ties with explicit direction modifiers."
	<c'_~ e'_~ g'_~ c''^~>2		<c'_~ e'_~ g'_~ c''^~>2
	\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t		\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t
	q		q
	}		}

	~~\markup "Now you can use \\shape for each tie as usual"~~

	{		{
	<c'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0)) _~		\textMark \markup {
	e'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0)) _~		Now you can use \typewriter "\\shape" for each tie as usual. }
	g'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0)) _~		<c'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0)) _~
			e'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0)) _~
			g'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0)) _~
	c''-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0)) ^~		c''-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0)) ^~
	>2		>2
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	q		q
	}		}

	~~\markup "This works at line break as well."~~

	{		{
	<c'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0))		\textMark "This also works at line breaks."
	((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0)))		<c'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0))
	_~		((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0))) _~
	e'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0))		e'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0))
	((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0)))		((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0))) _~
	_~		g'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0))
	g'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0))		((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0))) _~
	((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0)))		c''-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0))
	_~		((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0))) ^~
	c''-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0))
	((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0)))
	^~
	>2		>2
	\break		\break
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	q		q
	}		}

	~~\markup "Same with tieWaitForNote"~~

	{		{
			\textMark \markup {
			It also works with the \typewriter tieWaitForNote property. }
	\set tieWaitForNote = ##t		\set tieWaitForNote = ##t
	c'4-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0)) _~		c'4-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0)) _~
	e'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0)) _~		e'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0)) _~
	g'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0)) _~		g'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0)) _~
	c''-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0)) ^~		c''-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0)) ^~
	\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t		\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t
	<c' e' g' c''>1		<c' e' g' c''>1
			}

			\layout {
			indent = 0
			\context {
			\Score
			\override TextMark.padding = #4
			\override TextMark.break-align-symbols = #'(left-edge)
			}
			}

			\paper {
			score-system-spacing.padding = 3
	}		}
	</lilypond>		</lilypond>

Lemzwerg: New category

2025-11-21T23:31:11Z

New category

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	[[Category:Staff notation]]		[[Category:Staff notation]]
	[[Category:Tweaks and overrides]]		[[Category:Tweaks and overrides]]
	[[Category:Included in the official documentation]][[Category:Snippet]]		[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]
			[[Category:Snippet]]

Lemzwerg at 22:59, 21 November 2025

2025-11-21T22:59:53Z

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	[[Category:Staff notation]]		[[Category:Staff notation]]
	[[Category:Tweaks and overrides]]		[[Category:Tweaks and overrides]]
	[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]		[[Category:Included in the official documentation]][[Category:Snippet]]

Jean Abou Samra: Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

2025-11-16T18:50:26Z

Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:50, 16 November 2025
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	To shape individual ties in chords use the method demonstrated below.		To shape individual ties in chords use the method demonstrated below.

	<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>		<lilypond version="2.24" full>
	\paper { tagline = ##f }		\paper { tagline = ##f }

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:48:31Z

Import snippet from LSR

New page

To shape individual ties in chords use the method demonstrated below.

<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>
\paper { tagline = ##f }

\markup "Chords can be tied note by note"

{ <c'~ e'~ g'~ c''~>2 q }

\markup \wordwrap {
Affecting those ties with "\\shape" will not succeed, because TieColumn positions
them on its own behalf and more or less ignores the "\\shape-input".
You may surpress this by setting 'positioning-done true. Alas, 'positioning-done
is an internal property, setting it true means: all positioning is done, don't
do anything further. So you better take care you really did. See the example
below where this is missed: All directions are down and the thickness is not
accurate:
}

{
<c'~ e'~ g'~ c''~>2
\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t
q
}

\markup "To cure that, enter ties with explicit direction-modifiers"

{
<c'_~ e'_~ g'_~ c''^~>2
\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t
q
}

\markup "Now you can use \\shape for each tie as usual"

{
<c'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0)) _~
e'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0)) _~
g'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0)) _~
c''-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0)) ^~
>2
\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t
q
}

\markup "This works at line break as well."

{
<c'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0))
((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0)))
_~
e'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0))
((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0)))
_~
g'-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0))
((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0)))
_~
c''-\shape #'(((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0))
((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0)))
^~
>2
\break
\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t
q
}

\markup "Same with tieWaitForNote"

{
\set tieWaitForNote = ##t
c'4-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -10) (0 . -10) (0 . 0)) _~
e'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -5) (0 . -5) (0 . 0)) _~
g'-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . -2) (0 . -2) (0 . 0)) _~
c''-\shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . 5) (0 . 5) (0 . 0)) ^~
\once \override TieColumn.positioning-done = ##t
<c' e' g' c''>1
}
</lilypond>

[[Category:Staff notation]]
[[Category:Tweaks and overrides]]
[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]