Re: PartCombine

[Carl Sorensen]

On 5/16/11 4:12 AM, "Craig Bakalian" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am I reading this correctly- in the warning for using \partcombine
> 
> \partcombine only observes onset times of notes. It cannot determine
> whether a previously started note is playing or not, leading to various
> problems.
> 
> So this means if oboe 1 is playing sixteenth notes and then oboe 2
> enters into the staff and starts with quarter notes, will oboe 1 start
> to print quarter notes?  "It cannot determine whether a previously
> started note"?  "Various problems"?

The printed score will be just fine, but you may lose some MIDI notes
depending on your settings.  See
<http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1648>

HTH,

Carl