Tie direction

[dspreadbury]

The dfference in behaviour between these two scenarios is related to this earlier thread:

Tie direction for moving chords

Page 70 in Gould; [image] I would expect it to be [image] and not [image] (having used Sibelius for many years, which does it like so) and looking at an old Novello engraving it seems to be what they used; [image] Is this “Gould-rule” supported by Ted Ross et al.? If not, could perhaps an option be added to Dorico to disregard this rule?

Your second illustration, John, fits the criteria of the rules for single-stemmed chords that have moving notes within the tie chain. The first one does not, because the pitches of the untied notes are the same.

I will look into this in due course, but these kinds of involved things require time for investigation and careful examination of the rules used for calculating tie directions. When I have more information, I’ll share it.