Re: repeatTie question

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi,

(I hope I don't start a discussion orthogonal to the actual topic:)

> I don't think this is the right place – \laissezVibrer is not related
> to repeats at all.

That's something I have been wondering for some time now: There seem to 
be two semantically very different ideas relating to ties to/from 
nothing, namely:

- as an articulation: Obvious for \laissezVibrer from the name, but 
might also be conceivable as some esoteric form of "dal niente" for 
\repeatTie

- as a special construction for ties cut in half by repeat barlines 
(which might also be needed for slurs and phrasing slurs, for that matter).

At the moment, \laissezVibrer and \repeatTie form a geometrically 
symmetric pair, so to speak, but the names are distinctly 
non-symmetrical, one name emphasizing the use as an articulation, the 
other the use in a repeat situation.

Wouldn't it, in the interest of semantically "correct" coding, more 
natural to have distinct commands

- for articulation: a pair of \laissezVibrer and (e.g.) \tieFromNothing

- for repeats: a pair of (e.g.) \openingTie & \closingTie or 
\tieToRepeat & \tieFromRepeat ?

Lukas