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Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?


From: Graham Percival
Subject: Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:02:19 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote:
> i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with notes 
> of different duration.

Because there's no such thing as a chord with notes of different
duration.

> In the case typesetting violin music it would be much simpler if the notation 
> for chord allowed for notes of different duration.
> It also applies to other instruments where chords are arpegiated and the top 
> notes continue.

That's not a chord.  That's multiple voices, and they're simple to
write in lilypond.  Please read the learning manual.

If anybody was interested, they could write a music function which
automatically translates the music into the relevant multiple
voices.  The input code would look like this:
  \violinChord{ g4 d' b' g'2 }

Once such a function were written by a user, it could be uploaded
to LSR or just sent here for discussion.  Once any bugs were
worked out, it could be included in lilypond.

- Graham



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