only inspect tieWaitForNote if necessary.

diff --git a/lily/tie-engraver.cc b/lily/tie-engraver.cc
index 591f03f84c6d33c27762d33e547bdd5de84dd4be..9efe4784dc71a16da36a53ba484bc68bd85af1b9 100644 (file)
--- a/lily/tie-engraver.cc
+++ b/lily/tie-engraver.cc
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ Tie_engraver::start_translation_timestep ()
 {
   context ()->set_property ("tieMelismaBusy",
                            ly_bool2scm (heads_to_tie_.size ()));
-  
-  if (!to_boolean (get_property ("tieWaitForNote")))
+
+  if (heads_to_tie_.size () && !to_boolean (get_property ("tieWaitForNote")))
     {
       Moment now = now_mom ();
       for (vsize i = heads_to_tie_.size ();  i--; )