Reviving a month-old topic:
I can't cite any specific publications, but it seems to me that I've seen enharmonic ties handed in a way that hasn't been described yet in this thread. It might be objectionable on musicological purity grounds, but I think it's clearer for sightreading than any alternative yet mentioned, and it automatically solves the curved-tie problem.
Using the example of an A#-to-Bb tie, the second note is expressed as a diminished second, both A# and Bb. The A# is the target of the tie, so the tie is flat as usual. One of the notes, I can't remember which, is reduced to cue-note size and in parentheses.
The horizontal clutter of this approach dictates that it be used only for slow-moving passages, and never in dense chords. But it leaves no question that the player should maintain the same pitch, while also indicating the new harmonic context of that pitch.
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