RE: purpose of commands

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Phil Holmes,

Thanks for your work on the manual. I learn a lot from it and that which I
do not understand the other users help me!

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Holmes [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 1:49 AM
To: Trevor Daniels; Mark Stephen Mrotek; address@hidden
Subject: Re: purpose of commands

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
To: "Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: purpose of commands


> Hi Mark
>
> This snippet is rather contrived and misleading.  I think it should be 
> removed from the docs, or at least replaced with one which shows when the 
> definition of voiceFive is really necessary - when explicitly defining 
> voices.
>
> First, the \voicexxx commands are unnecessary when using the << {}\\{}>> 
> construct.  They have to be placed here only because the voices are 
> entered in the incorrect order.  If instead the five voices are entered 
> from voice one to voice five in order omitting voice four everything works

> fine without having to define \voiceFive, as shown below.  The bar "||" 
> has no effect in the position shown.  It should be at the end of one of 
> the five music expressions.


I've updated the LSR with the explicit voice version and deleted the errant 
bar line completely.  The docs will pick up this update in due course.

--
Phil Holmes