Different note durations on same staff

[Tim Mariott]

Sherry

Thanks for usual very rapid reply. Unfortunately your advice is what I was already trying. I have done so again following precisely your steps but I still cannot get it to collapse. I guess there could be something strange in this file as it started life as a MIDI exported by the software I used before Notation. Can you check it out please?

Thanks: Tim

[Sherry C]

Hi Tim,

You have the dubious distinction of having uncovered a bug with the collapse ties command. I'm writing this up for fixing, and will use some snippets from your file as excellent examples where the collapse ties command needs to be more robust.

Unfortunately the bad news is that there is no workaround that I could figure out for some of these (eg. measure 9) without using the Staff/Split Melody and Accompaniment command. Is your keyboard player supposed to play the bass line as well, or would it be ok to split the score like I did? (eg. Use Staff/Split Melody and Accompaniment, and have a total of 3 staves in the piece, with one being what sounds like a "bass player" part.)

Thanks!
Sherry