Re: about beam, stacato dots, and chord

[Jonathan Kulp]

huy nguyen wrote:
>         
> I'm a string player, so all the questions here about violins and violas.
>  
> ok first of all, the program places the beam for eight notes in weird 
> places. sometime they don't even beam all of the sixteen notes together. so I 
> see 4 beamed 16th notes, and then 4 separate ones.. although it don't matter, it 
> would look much better if all of the 16th notes beam up. second, sometime the 
> stacato dots are not below the notes, but they are above the beams, this looks 
> ridiculous. and I have no idea how to make a chord with 3 low quarter notes, and 
> the top note is a whole note. it doesn't show up.

Please copy a minimal example of the problem and we'll try to help.  As 
regards the chord mixing quarters and a whole note, my guess is that 
you'll need to look at "single staff polyphony" in the manual to get 
what you want.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Multiple-voices#Multiple-voices

>  
> and I'm working on a string quartet, and I need to print the scores and parts. 
> although I've learn about the part print instruction in the manual, I just dont' 
> know how to remove the comment blocks listed there. I think that all of the 
> codes listed in the manual should be usable by just copy and paste; not 
> like that you have to change them. it makes things much easier if u can just 
> copy and paste the code.
>  
The comment blocks won't affect your score, but if you want to remove 
them, just select and delete them, making sure only to delete stuff that 
follows the %.  Don't delete any curly braces or you'll run into compile 
problems.

> I'm very new to this. this is the first time I've even use notepad for this 
> coding-like purpose, I'm just a normal computer user, no coding experience.. 
> sorry if I sounds stupid. thanks for those who will answer my questions
>  
> Sincerely,
> James


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