On Apr 6, 2008, at 6:54 AM, dhbailey wrote:
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.
In that case you are right, but there are places where the philosophy IS a problem. For example, at the the end of a first ending, where the last note is tied back to the first note of the section, and there is ALSO a tied note beginning the second ending. We need TWO different ties there; one that is a half-tie beginning, and the other a half-tie ending. Also, if there were DS's involving tied notes, codas likewise, and skipped sections, the ties don't follow the usual way. I think Finale was trying to make things "easier" for us when we have a tied DS, by eliminating the tie end over the system break. But we should be able to force it more easily!
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