Re: Q: Typesetting 4 parts with a 2 staff reduction

[David Petrou]

> > thanks.  that works great.  there may be some times that i need
> > non-lyric-related slurs in the piano part, though.  like if i want to
> > note something like: ds2( )ds8 b cs d within a measure.  i think i'll
> > need to get Mats suggestion working for this type of hackery. 
> 
> An alternative would be to use, so called, phrasing slurs \(...\) 
> for one purpose and ordinary slurs (...) for the other. Then you 
> could set transparent on either PhrasingSlur or Slur.

thanks again.  my particular example above actually called for a tie
(~), but i didn't know until yesterday that there was a difference in
lily between a slur and a tie.

now i have three slur-like symbols at my disposal: ~ ( and \(.

>       /Mats

thanks again!
david