in this abc

<snip> % Generated more or less automatically by swtoabc by Erich Rickheit KSC X:1 T:Little Sir Hugh M:6/8 L:1/8 K:G B/2-c/2|d-e dB-A B| GGD D2B/2-c/2|d-e dB-A G| A3- A2 A|d-e dB-A B|\ G2 D D2 D|G-A Bc-B A| G3- G2|| </snip>

there are a few simple slurs between adjacent notes (notes 1&2, 3&4, etc) parser gets very confused and puts slurs all over the place

attached is what the output should be (expected.tiff) and what it is (actual.tiff)

version 0.5

thanks.

Hi, your ABC is bogus. - is a tie between 2 notes, to play note 1&2 as a single note of length = 1.length + 2.length

() denotes a slur, which means to play legato

Try with (B/2c/2)|(de) d(BA) B|...

You're right. My mistake, I understand the difference now. FWIW, I found this ABC on abcnotation.com, and poking around some more in their collection it seems like this tie-slur confusion is pretty common. So I don't know, having the parser interpret a "tie" between unequal notes as a slur might be worth doing, given the abc data that's in circulation, even though it's wrong.