Re: Ties across voices

[Simon Albrecht]

On 16.06.2018 20:41, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I'm attaching a scan from "The Easy Winners" by Scott Joplin, the way 
> it was published in 1901.
>
> I can't seem to get it to display the way I want.
[…]
> The Tie won't tie between the voices and the chord past the voices.

It seems to work if you move the Tie_engraver from Voice to Staff level:

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\version "2.19.80"

\layout {
  \context {
    \Staff
    \consists Tie_engraver
    \consists Tie_performer
  }
  \context {
    \Voice
    \remove Tie_engraver
    \remove Tie_performer
  }
}

\relative c'' {
  \time 2/4
  \key des \major
  \mergeDifferentlyDottedOn
  <<
    {
      g16 <bes des>8.  ges16 <c ees>8 des16~ |
    }
    \\
    {
      g,4 ges8. f16~
    }
  >>
  <f des'>8 f'16 des ees f aes, a |
}
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I moved Tie_performer along, since you were talking about the importance 
of accurate MIDI for your use case. I don’t use MIDI (or hardly ever) so 
I can’t test reasonably, but it should work, I imagine.

Best, Simon