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.

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?

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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