Re: Various updates to reduce make doc output (issue 5727055)

[Carl Sorensen]

On 3/14/12 11:48 AM, "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:

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>From: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
>To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
>Cc: "Lily-Devel List" <address@hidden>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 4:28 PM
>Subject: Re: Various updates to reduce make doc output (issue 5727055)
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>> Didn't you see what I wrote before?  There is no restriction to
>> 4 voices in LilyPond, as is shown in the NR.  See Single-staff
>>polyphony 
>> in 
>> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices
>>
>>
>I've looked at midi2ly and it uses explicit instantiation of voices,
>which 
>is what we normally advise.  My understanding is that there are only 4
>explicit voices - voiceFive does not exist, AFAIK.  The warning message
>comes from midi2ly stating that it has no more explicit voice names left,
>and therefore layout is likely to be poor.  We don't need to see this
>during 
>make doc.

If I read the snippet correctly (Additional voices to avoid collisions, in
NR 1.5.2), there is no limit to the number of voices in LilyPond.  But
only four voices are defined.

In the snippet, voiceFive is defined, before it is used.

So it would be nice to have a feature added to midi2ly that would
automatically create voiceFive, voiceSix, etc. if needed.

Thanks,

Carl