Re: Need help with voices and staves

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "George_" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:30 AM
Subject: Need help with voices and staves


> I'm transcribing Bach's Fugue No. 20 in A minor from the Well-Tempered
> Clavier Bk. 1, and I've run into a bit of a problem:

[snip approx 150 lines]

> When I get to bar 11 and the fourth voice comes in the output
> becomes...strange. The First voice moves into the bottom staff and the 
> first
> note in bar 8 now has the stem coming from the middle of the note - but 
> when
> I change the rest to s8 in reference to the error I get, the stem moves 
> back
> to its normal position (why is that, anyway?)

I'd guess many people saw your first post.  However, the music you've posted 
is really too complicated for most people to want to step in and debug for 
you.  From my perspective, it's also written very strangely - why would you 
start the music in one stave with 2 voices, and swap staves all the time. 
Why not, as a general rule, put the music for the LH into the LH stave, only 
crossing where needed (see bar 4, for example).

Have you checked the logfile for errors - there are loads.  One thing to 
concentrate on is getting rid of them all.

Also - I'd suggest reading 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/usage/suggestions-for-writing-files

HTH

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Phil Holmes