dc wrote:
Darcy James Argue écrit:
Are the ties the same note, or are you trying to tie an enharmonic
equivalent (C# to Db, for instance)?
That's it! I just checked, and realize that the accidental was missing
on the second note!
Many thanks, Darcy.
And sorry for the stupid question!
What stupid question? I don't recall you asking one.
One thing about notation programs (Sibelius does similar things) is that
they can be too darned literal in their efforts to help save us from
ourselves, even when we don't need saving. We should be allowed to
enter a tie even it the two notes next to each other aren't the same
pitch (either by design as with enharmonic equivalents or by accident
where we felt we didn't need to enter an accidental because visually
that's the way it should be), and manipulate it with no hassles. A tie
goes from one note to the next note, so it isn't as if it's a great
philosophical problem for the software to know where to draw it. It
should remain horizontal (parallel to the staff lines) regardless of the
pitches of the two notes and we should be responsible for the notational
accuracy, not the program trying to tell us that a tie end doesn't
really belong on that note because the preceding pitch is different.
--
David H. Bailey
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