Is this setting reversed in Engraving Options/Ties/Avoiding Collisions/ ?
The descriptions suggests that a value of zero would prevent the height of ties to be reduced, however it looks like the opposite is true. I want to turn this option completely off and not allow any height reduction.
You’re right, the value seems to indicate the remaining percentage after the amount has been reduced. Enter 99 if you don’t want any reduction (100 is not possible).
So it’s the percent to which the height can be reduced, rather than the amount by which it can be reduced.
indeed, but I need 100% (no height reduction) which is not possible. Assuming that 99% will not be sufficient to avoid a collision, it will likely trigger a height increase instead. In any case, this is confusing.
I wouldn’t get too hung up over the 99% v. 100% — it’s likely that the range is limited by a two digit number in the code, effectively 0-99. This would give the same “steps” as 1-100. If “100” were possible then so might values up to “999”! The same thing happens with MIDI values. Some apps allow 0-127 while others use 1-128.
— Jim
