if (to_boolean (me->get_property ("forced"))
|| !unsmob_grob (me->get_object ("tie"))
- || rank != start + 1) /* we are in the middle of a line */
+ || rank == start + 1) /* we are at the start of a line */
{
Stencil *s = unsmob_stencil (get_stencil (me));
if (s)