Re: How to double in octaves

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, 24 May 2003 15:23:04 -0400
Daniel Ashton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > This is the desired behaviour! If you have chords of music that
> > really belong to one and the same voice, you should only have one
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> > slur.
 
> Here's the exception.  The part is a bass part for use by baritone and
> tuba players.  A given player will probably be reading only the top line
> or the bottom line (but a talented player of either instrument might
> switch at whim).  Therefore, I _think_ I want the slur to appear on both.

In this case, you want the two parts to appear in seperate voices -- ie the
stems should not be joined.  Refer to the manual on "polyphony" to see
how this works.  (short answer: < {part1} \\ {part2 >  )

Cheers,
- Graham