Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

[Peter Bjuhr]

Hi Michael,

thanks for your reply!

On 01/16/2014 07:17 PM, Michael Rivers wrote:
> I think you just have to remember to use \oneVoice or \stemNeutral when the
> 2nd voice isn't playing.

\oneVoice is the best choice, isn't it, because it affects more than 
just the stems!?
> If the 2nd voice is coming and going frequently, you are much better off
> using
>
> <<
>    { \voiceOne
>       Music goes here
>    }
>    \new Voice {
>       { \voiceTwo
>          Music goes here
>       }
>    }
> \oneVoice
>
> This way, when the voices split in two, the first voice can continue using a
> slur it had begun before the voices split. If you use << { } \\ {} >> to
> split the voices, you'll get "Cannot terminate slur" errors, and then you
> have to start the second voice before you really want to, fill it with
> spacer rests and manually change the stemming -- no fun.

As mentioned previously what I have to work with in this case is an 
output from musicxml2ly with the voices as separate music variables. It 
could still be an option of course to use the structure you suggest and 
I have done that previously from musicxml2ly outputs. But I still think 
my best option in this case is to use the \partcombine solution, but I'm 
very willing to listen to other suggestion. I know that there are a lot 
of users with much more experience than myself.

Best
Peter