Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

[Vicente Solsona]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:06:26 +0200, James Wilkinson <address@hidden>  
wrote:
> On 10/11/10 5:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > > On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote:
> > >
> > > > if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once.  
> > > > thus
> > > > you:
> > > >
> > > > 1) save typing
> > > > 2) help lilypond so it does't need to waste time guessing obvious  
> > > > things
> > > > and it can concentrate on the big stuff :)
> > > >
> > > > you just need to create a third voice with spacers and all the common
> > > > marks, in parallel with the other two:
> >
> > I'm not at all certain that's a good idea.  The dynamics won't be
> > present in MIDI (which is probably no great loss), but more
> > importantly, it messes up the semantics for no particularly good
> > reason.
>
> 8-(
>
> When I first brought this up, that answer seemed to be the consensus, so  
> I gave it a go. Now I don't know what to do. If there's a better way,  
> I'd love to hear it.
>
> Or am I back to my original idea of having Lilypond remove the duplicate  
> dynamic marks on its own?
>
> thanks

for me it's still a good idea. you have two voices sharing the same  
dynamics. probably there's other way, but it definitely works for me, and  
lilypond allows it. not such a big deal I think.


greetings,

Vicente