Re: Stem direction with ties

[Phil Holmes]

"Per Starbäck" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
news:address@hidden
> I wrote:
> > > With
> > >
> > > \version "2.16.2"
> > >
> > > \relative c'' {
> > >   b~ b8 a b4~ b8 c
> > >   a8 b~ b4 c8 b~ b4
> > > }
> > >
> > > the stems of every b goes downwards. I think it would be better if tied
> > > notes had the same direction, to make it clearer visually that they 
> > > belong
> > > together. Then two of these stems should go up instead.
>
> David Kastrup replied:
> > Well, how would you typeset
> >
> > \relative c'' {
> >   e8[ c]~ c a~ a[ f]~ f e
> > }
> >
> > with that rule?
>
> With all stems up. That looks better to me at least.


Elaine Gould, in "Behind Bars" has many examples of where the stems of tied 
notes do not have the same direction, so typographically we should accept 
that it's not standard notation.  As David said, if it bothers you \stemUp 
is a trivial command.

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad