Use smart-shape slurs on the half-notes and drag them to be the shape 
you need to represent the last halves of ties.



Crystal Premo wrote:

> I am working on a cut version of Some Else's Story from the conductor's 
> score of Chess.
> 
> I have noticed that in some place, a progression of four eighth notes 
> will be beamed together, but in other places not.  There is nothing 
> obvious that sets them apart:  no articulations or slurs.  Since I have 
> noticed that conductor's scores can be filled with errors, I am 
> wondering if this is error or actually something that would indicate 
> phrasing for the keyboardist.
> 
> Also, in the last two measures of the piano accompaniment of the piece 
> there is a whole note chord tied to a half note chord in the last 
> measure.  It is interrupted by a run of eighth notes which begins in the 
> bass clef and crosses the path of the tied chords.  In the score, the 
> copyist has broken the ties to allow the eighth notes to be visible.  
> Playback is not important on this job, so I created the ties reaching 
> out from the whole notes with let it ring noteheads from the Engraver 
> font.  It works quite nicely because the top two notes of the chord must 
> have ties which arch upward, and the bottom note must have one which 
> arches downward.  I can't use this solution with the ties which reach 
> backward from the half note chord, as there is not let it ring notehead 
> which reaches to the left.  If I use the tie backward function, to 
> create the backward-reaching ties from the half note chord, they reach 
> across the eighth note run to the whole note chord.  If I use the 
> Special Tools ties going backward and shorten them to accommodate the 
> eighth notes, I cannot flip the two top note ties upward.  Or, actually, 
> I can't flip them at all.  This is not very important, as the singer 
> requesting the work will most likely not even notice this small 
> discrepancy, but I am wondering how to work this out for a time when it 
> does matter
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Crystal Premo
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