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

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41:22AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > As far as I can see, there is not much more to do than just omit the
> > warning for parallel music when the output is sensible.  The extra
> > angles for being allowed (and required) to put the durations inside
> > seem like a reasonably cheap price to pay.
> 
> There is an additional obstacle: If you do
> 
>   \relative c {
>     <<c g'' d''>>
>   }
> 
> you get three staves with single notes instead of a chord...

I agree that this is an obstacle, but it's one that's explained in
LM 2 tutorial, and easily worked-around by adding \new Voice
before the \relative.

I'm definitely interested in proposing that \relative c' { should
automatically start a \new Voice if there isn't one already, but
let's wait until GLISS.

Cheers,
- Graham