Re: How to recognize Voice-continuation?

[Thomas Morley]

2015-03-27 7:07 GMT+01:00 Keith OHara <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <thomasmorley65 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Any chance to have LilyPond identify the second voice-b as a
>> continuation of the first?
>
> This seems to be analogous to the way we need to keep the staff "alive"
> when we temporarily leave a staff empty in piano music.
>
> \new Staff <<
>     \new Voice = "a" \with { \override NoteHead #'color = #green }
>      s1*4
>     \new Voice ="b" \with { \override NoteHead #'color = #red }
>      s1*4
>   \relative c' {
>     \context Voice = "a"
>     { \set tieWaitForNote = ##t c1~ }
>     \context Voice = "b"
>     { \set tieWaitForNote = ##t cis4 d dis e^~ }
>     \context Voice = "a"
>     { d2 c2 }
>     \context Voice = "b"
>     { f4 e fis g }
>     \context Voice = "a"
>     { e1 }
>   } >>



Hi Keith,

I completely forgot about this possibilty and couldn't find it in the
docs during a quick search.
Where is it mentioned (I know I've seen it somewhere in the past)?

Again, thanks a lot,
  Harm