Voices, ties and rests

[James Harkins]

Hi,

Just joined the mailing list after fiddling about with lilypond off and on for 
the past month or so -- now I need to produce some "real" notation so, time to 
hook up to the community.

(Apologies in advance if this is a duplicate post -- I initially subscribed my 
"send-to" address, which unfortunately is different from the "from" address 
that my e-mail client inserts. I've now subscribed both addresses -- admins, no 
need to approve the earlier post, which I believe is awaiting moderation.)

Thanks to the excellent documentation (and the easy access to it in 
Frescobaldi), I've been able to figure out almost everything that I need to do. 
This one has me stumped (example pasted below).

I'd like to produce the visual effect of a tie between the octave E's spanning 
the bar line concluding measure 1, which also crosses from the top to the 
bottom staff. I have a vague guess that the answer might be a phrasing slur 
with doubleSlurs enabled, but I'm wondering if there's a better way.

Plus... after that, I want to sustain the E's as a pedal point, and it feels a 
bit uncomfortable to keep all of those notes in a top-staff voice (appearing in 
the bottom staff just because of \change Staff = "left"). How can I switch the 
notes over to write them within the "left = " block, but still have ties?

One more question (thought this would be easy to find in the manual) -- since 
effectively only one layer is displayed in m2-3, I don't need the rests to be 
offset upward. How do I override that behavior of \voiceOne? (I did eventually 
find the syntax b'4\rest, but seems clunky and verbose... better way?)

Thanks... btw, I'm completely hooked on lilypond after only a little bit of 
use. Everything that I hated in Finale seems to be much better handled here :)

James


~~~
\version "2.12.3"

\include "english.ly"

\paper {
  #(set-paper-size "a4")
}

global = {
  \key d \major
  \numericTimeSignature
  \time 4/4
}

right = \relative c'' {
  \global
  \times 2/3 { <b, b'>8 ( <d d'>8 <e e'>8 ~ }
  <e e'>4 ~ <e e'>8. <d d'>16 <e e'>4 ) 
  <<
    { \voiceOne
      r4 <b a' d>8 <b a' d> <b a' d>4 r8 <b a' d>8
      <b a' d>4 <b a' d> r2
    }
    \new Voice { \voiceThree
      \change Staff = "left"
      <e e'>1 ~ <e e'>1
    }
  >> \oneVoice
}

left = \relative c'' {
  \global
  % Music follows here.
  \voiceTwo
  d,1 ~ d1 ~ d1
}

\score {
  \new PianoStaff
  <<
    \new Staff = "right" { \right }
    \new Staff = "left" { \left }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \RemoveEmptyStaffContext
      % need to hide the left-hand staff when not used
      % may need to move this into staves later?
      \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t
    }
  }
}
~~~


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