Re: Help in using polyphony

[Hendrik]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> "Hendrik" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Indeed it came from the manual for 1.8 Maybe there should
>>> be a warning that such things have changed?  I found it by
>>> googling with "site:www.lilypond.org polyphony".
>>
>> I recommend you browsing the manual directly.  It may even
>> be installed on your local computer together with LilyPond
>> and hopefully correspond to the installed version.  The web
>> site contains documentation for various versions.
>>
>>> << \melody
>>>    \accompany
>>>    \bass
>>>>>
>>
>> I would rather do << \melody \\ \bass \\ \accompany >> or
>> even better give explicit \voiceOne, \voiceTwo...  commands
>> to arrange stem directions and the like.

I did this (inside \melody ...), but all the stems were up then.  So I used
\stemUp and \stemDown.

Also,
>>
>>             \override Staff.NoteCollision
>>                 #'merge-differently-headed = ##t
>>             \override Staff.NoteCollision
>>                 #'merge-differently-dotted = ##t
>>
>> is often useful for guitar scores.

Where should I put this?  Inside the \scores I presume, but outside the
others right?

>>> which are each input like <<as c>> <<as c>>
>>
>> You probably mean <as c> <as c> instead.

Yes, this works better, thanks.

But I still get a bunch of error messages saying 'adding notes to
incompatible stem (type=2) Don't you want polyphonic voices instead?'
And also 'Can't have rests and note heads together on a stem', which makes
sense, because at those places the rests are printed over the notes, instead
of lowered under them.  Should I do this by hand?
And also 'Can not add text scripts to individual note heads', but that is
something I'll worry about later, when first the notes are at the right
places...

>>> Well ok, I'll keep meddling and see what comes out...
>>
>> Good luck!

Thanks.  H.