Re: [Denemo-devel] Need some direction/clarification

[Richard Shann]

I have added the part-combine feature to Denemo now. You can find it
under the Staffs->Voices menu.

Richard

On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 08:37 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 01:38 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
> > 
> > I have attached the one I did with MuseScore before it went berserk.
> > That communicates the kind of stemming I'm targeting.  The only places
> > where stems are not unified are places where the voices don't share
> > the
> > same note lengths. 
> 
> There are commands in LilyPond to do this - \partCombine,
> \partcombineChords, .... These haven't had commands written for them
> inside Denemo though, so they would require you to study the LilyPond
> syntax and insert the LilyPond (either with the Directives->Insert
> LilyPond, or more likely by writing a custom layout (View->Score
> Layouts).
> 
> What I did for the keyboard piece I referred to was to write the notes
> that shared a stem as a chord. This is ok for a keyboard piece where
> there are not literally separate vocal parts but would be an unpleasant
> way to write a choral piece.
> 
> At the moment I am very busy trying to build version 1.0 for windows, so
> I don't really have time to experiment with where the \partCombine
> commands would be placed - if you can work with the LilyPond text to get
> the output you want (the lilypond-user list is very helpful and the
> LilyPond documentation very accurate) then it will be easy to add the
> commands needed to Denemo.
> 
> Richard
> 
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