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Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff


From: James Bailey
Subject: Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:19:00 +0200

On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:58 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:

> So I finally separated the dynamics from the notes, and it works!!!!! But I 
> had a couple of problems:
> 
> 1)  Whenever both instruments have a rest, Lilypond stacks them vertically. 
> James Bailey sent me a link to a snippet that fixes that. (How did he know 
> that was going to be my next problem?)

I'm prescient!

> My question is, "Why is that a snippet? Given that merging the rests is the 
> standard way to engrave them under those circumstances, could Lilypond not 
> just do it and make me have to find a different snippet if that's not what I 
> want?

Because depending on the kind of music, it's different. Vocal music usually has 
the rests merged; whereas instrumental music does not.

> Or at just provide the merge-rests-on-positioning function and mention it in 
> the docs?"
> 
> 2)  In another measure the upper voice has a quarter rest followed by a half 
> note on the bottom line of the staff. The lower voice has a dotted half rest. 
> The problem here is that the half note in the upper voice is so low on the 
> staff that it prints over the rest in the lower voice. These voices share a 
> staff in the score, but not in the individual parts.

Can you actually provide an example of how you've done this? I can't for the 
life of me figure out how you get the collision.




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