Re: Inconsistent behavior with additional staves?

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Lovis Suchmann" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 12:23 PM
Subject: Inconsistent behavior with additional staves?


> Hello everyone,
>
> first: I'm new on this mailing list, so I hope I'm on the right place for 
> my question:
>
> today when working with LilyPond, I noticed some strange behaviour with 
> additional staves. Have a look at the LilyPond code below. When 
> interpreting this, the staves named "eigth" and "sixteenth" do not end 
> after the end of the note but contine futher on. The staves named "full", 
> "half" and "quarter" end after the end of the note as expected. I think 
> you will be able to reproduce this behavior, i checked it with LilyPond 
> 2.16 and 2.17.95. This inconsistency also happens in a slightly different 
> manner when changing "\context" to "\new". I cannot see this is intended, 
> so is it a bug?
>
> (If someone is not able to reproduce what I'm talking about, please tell 
> me...)
>
> Thank you in advance :)
>
> Lovis

I've no idea what you're trying to achieve, or why LilyPond is doing this, 
but it's easy to work around:

\context Staff = "eigth" { c'8 s128 }
\context Staff = "sixteenth" { c'16 s128 }


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Phil Holmes