Re: Horns example from blog

[David Kastrup]

Jim Long <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:41:01AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Jim Long <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I will say that the merging of noteheads onto stems is probably
>> > the weak spot in my knowledge.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > The piece also generates several warnings about clashing note
>> > columns.
>> 
>> Small wonder:
>> 
>> >        \new Voice { \voiceOne \hornA }
>> >        \new Voice { \voiceOne \hornB }
>> 
>> Both with \voiceOne but in separate voices?
>
> I didn't mean to imply that it shouldn't generate those warnings,
> just acknowledging that the warning serve to indicate that this
> probably isn't "snippet-quality" code.
>
> I was trying to reproduce the example .png given in the blog,
> accessible at http://felixrosch.com/example.png.
>
> That example shows two grouped staves, each with two horn parts
> written on the same stem, as though they were a chord.  I didn't
> know how else to merge the noteheads from two different voices
> onto a single stem.

Stems are per-voice.  So you should either just put both parts into the
same voice (that's feasible for homophonic music, namely music where
only one stem is ever needed because durations are identical), or use
the part combiner in order to join voices just on an as-needed basis.

-- 
David Kastrup