RE: Staff and voice definitions

[Trevor Daniels]

David

You don't say which version of LilyPond you are using, but I'm sure the answers 
to your questions are contained in the documentation which came with it.  
Alternatively, you may find the answers in the documentation being prepared for 
release 2.12, which can currently be found under the 2.11 development pages.  
To be more specific, look at chapters 2 and 3 in the Learning Manual at 
http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/index.html. 
 These explain the concepts of Staff and Voice.  I'd be interested to hear if 
they help.

Trevor D

> -----Original Message-----
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> address@hidden Behalf Of
> David Fedoruk
> Sent: 24 December 2007 06:02
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> Subject: Staff and voice definitions
> 
> 
> Hello:
> 
> Using Lilypond keeps challenging assumptions I 
> have made about WEM
> (Western European Music) notation. In most cases, 
> there is a voice
> which goes with each staff, but I don't see that 
> the creation of a
> voice is  part of the staff engraver or any of 
> the engravers that go
> along with it.
> 
> Can I assume that the creation of a music which 
> goes between the {} is
> separate from the staff?
> 
> I have a more specific instance in mind but I 
> want to understand the
> process by which lilypond creates the staff, 
> braces, and clefs before
> I ask about a particular instance; and maybe work 
> the instance out
> myself.
> 
> A follow-up question is can a Piano staff which 
> has two staffs which
> work together, have only one { music } and still 
> run between both
> staves? A single voice played by two hands.
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Fedoruk
> B.Mus. UBC,1986
> Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003
> 
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