Re: Stem Combining

[James E. Bailey]

Am 04.09.2008 um 12:00 schrieb Risto Vääräniemi:

> 2008/9/4 Mats Bengtsson :
> > I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned \partcombine, so far. It's  
> > probably
> > the closest you can
> > get to your wishes, with the built-in support in LilyPond. See  
> > Section
> > "Automatic part combining"
> > in the manual for more information. Note that the current part  
> > combiner has
> > a number of issues, though.
>
> Yes, it has. I tried once to combine soprano and alto voices and
> although it produced fine looking music the biggest obstacle was
> attaching lyrics to the combined "voice". It might be possible to use
> it by using associatedVoice but that was too complex and I decided to
> create the voice by hand with chords <x y>.
>
> If someone has found out  a solution that will allow attaching lyrics
> to "partcombined" voice I'd be very happy to hear of it. :-)
>
> -Risto
What's the problem?

voiceone = \context Voice = "voice one" \relative {
   \stemDown
   c'4 h a g f e d2 c1
}

voicetwo = \relative {
   \stemUp
   e'4 d c h a g a^( h) c1
}
words = \lyricmode {
   I vii vi V IV iii ii vii I
}

\score {
   <<
      \new Staff \with { printPartCombineTexts = ##f } <<  
\partcombine \voiceone \voicetwo >>
      \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice one" \words
   >>
}

It works fine for me.