Re: rest placement in multi-voice piano staff

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

Hi David,

> I was wondering if anyone had a clue as to how to get the eighth rest in voice three to be shown above the half note in voice four?

Yes: use Lilypond’s automatic voicing:

        \new PianoStaff <<
            \new Staff = "upper" <<
                \new Voice = "first" { \voiceOne \pianoVoiceOne }
                \new Voice = "second" { \voiceTwo \pianoVoiceTwo }
            >>
            \new Staff = "lower" <<
                \clef bass
                \new Voice = "third" { \voiceOne \pianoVoiceThree }
                \new Voice = "fourth" { \voiceTwo \pianoVoiceFour }
            >>
        >>

This may also allow you to reduce or totally avoid the use of \stemUp and \stemDown (which are extremely rare in my scores, despite my heavy use of polyphony).

Hope this helps!
Kieren.

Yes, very much thanks.

I had intended to use the automatic voicing, but somehow got the syntax wrong.  
Nor did I realize that for voices 3 and 4, you use \voiceOne and \voiceTwo.

That explains why I had to add lots of \stemUp and \stemDown commands.
I was expecting everything to just work, and was bummed that I had to deal with lots of cases manually.

David Elaine Alt

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