Re: multiple markups when combining voices on single staff

[Niki Pantelias]

  Hi Mats,

  Thanks for the suggestions.  Using \new or naming the voice contexts seems 
to help in some ways (no more collisions between notes and rests) but makes 
matters worse in others (e.g., prints three rests instead of one where all 
voices rest).  Defining dymamics and articulations separately from the notes 
seems like a promising approach, though, so I'll experiment with that some.

  -- Niki


On Monday 06 October 2003 07:05 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Niki Pantelias wrote:
> >   Hi Graham (everyone),
> >
> >   Thanks for the reply.  I have experimented a bit with \partcombine, but
> > I believe it is limited to only two voices; I need to put three or four
> > voices on a single staff.  Also, I'd like to have the stems "shared"
> > across noteheads not set in opposite directions as \partcombine does.
> >
> >  Just using simultaneous music, as I've been doing so far, combines
> > noteheads and dynamic markings exactly as I'd like, but doesn't seem to
> > work so well for articulation or solo sections (where it sets notes and
> > rests on top of each other).
>
> You shouldn't get any collisions between notes and rests, did you
> remember to make a new context for each of the voices (assigning
> separate names for each context or using < {...} \\ {...}> or
> using the \new function (which is new in version 2.0)).
>
> For dynamic markings, it may be more convenient to define them
> separately from the music, so you can choose when to include them:
> dynamicsA = \notes{ s1 \f \skip 1*10 s1 \pp ...}
>
> >   Does anyone know if this is supposed to work, or if there is a
> > workaround? Or a way to make \partcombine work with more than two voices?
>
> You can always do it with some extra manual work, but I can't point to
> any automatic solution at the moment. See also
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2003-09/msg00038.html
>
>     Mats