Re: Changing voice order...

[David Kastrup]

"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden> writes:

> David,
>
> Since starting Lilypond I have become accustomed to the order presented in
> the manual (2.18.2) that states:
> Voice 1: highest
> Voice 2: lowest
> Voice 3: second highest
> Voice 4: second lowest
> Voice 5: third highest
> Voice 6: third lowest.
>
> This arrangement is useful for my setting idiosyncratic piano (Chopin,
> Mendelssohn).

So you enter your material in that order?  Particularly in connection
with << ... \\ ... \\ ... ... >> ?

If you do, you are representative for users that _will_ be getting
headaches when we change this.  I'm pretty sure that this is worth
changing but I have rather few ideas how we could make the transition
less painful.

Maybe some switch/command that will revert to the old order?  Then
convert-ly would provide it when detecting a << ... \\ ... \\ ... ... >>
construct and one would usually strive to edit the source in order to be
able to remove it again.

-- 
David Kastrup