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Ties

A tie connects two adjacent note heads of the same pitch. When used with chords, it connects all the note heads whose pitches match. Ties are indicated using the tilde symbol `~'. If you try to tie together chords which have no common pitches then no ties will be created.

  e' ~ e' <c' e' g'> ~ <c' e' g'>

If you dislike the amount of ties created for a chord, you set Voice.sparseTies to true, resulting in a smaller number of ties:

  \property Voice.sparseTies = ##t
  <c' e' g'> ~ <c' e' g'>

In its meaning a tie is just a way of extending a note duration, similar to the augmentation dot: the following example are two ways of notating exactly the same concept.

The name of the tie grob is Tie . It is usually created in the Voice context.

BUGS

At present, the tie is implemented as a separate thing, temporally located in between the notes. There is also no way to convert between tied notes, dotted notes and plain notes.

Tieing only a subset of the note heads of a chord is not supported in a simple way. It can be achieved by moving the tie-engraver into the Thread context and turning on and off ties per Thread.

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