tie-interface

A horizontal curve connecting two noteheads.

User settable properties:

avoid-slur (symbol)

Method of handling slur collisions. Choices are around, inside, outside. If unset, script and slur ignore eachother.

control-points (list)

List of offsets (number-pairs) that form control points for the tie/slur/bracket shape. For beziers, this should list the control points of a 3rd order bezier curve.

dash-fraction (number)

Size of the dashes, relative to dash-period. Should be between 0.0 (no line) and 1.0 (continuous line).

dash-period (number)

the length of one dash + white space. If negative, no line is drawn at all.

direction (direction)

If side-position is 1 (#X), then this property determines if the object is placed #LEFT, #CENTER or #RIGHT with respect to the other object. Otherwise, it determines if the object is placed #UP #CENTER or #DOWN. Numerical values may also be used. #UP=1, #DOWN=-1, #LEFT=-1, #RIGHT=1, CENTER=0 but also other numerical values are permitted.

head-direction (direction)

Are the note heads left or right in a semitie?

line-thickness (number)

The thickness of the tie/slur contour.

staff-position (number)

Vertical position, measured in half staff spaces, counted from the middle line.

thickness (number)

Line thickness, generally measured in line-thickness.

Internal properties:

details (list)

alist of parameters for detailed grob behavior.

more information on the allowed parameters can be found by inspecting lily/slur-scoring.cc, lily/beam-quanting.cc, and lily/tie-formatting-problem.cc. Setting debug-tie-scoring, debug-beam-scoring or debug-slur-scoring also provides useful clues.

quant-score (string)

Beam quanting score – can be stored for debugging

separation-item (layout object)

A separation item.

This grob interface is used in the following graphical objects: Tie