Re: Changing voice order...

[Robert Schmaus]

Hi everyone,

I've never used implicit voice assignment and I doubt I will start with it now. 

But since there's no real need for the ordering of voices _in the code_ to match the vertical arrangement of the _engraved_ notes (and isn't that also, what Lilypond is all about? You specify the input in a well-structured way, let lily care about the engraving) I'd find any input sequence other than 1/2/3/... counterintuitive. 

Best,

Robert

______

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. 

-- William Kingdon Clifford

On 27 Oct 2016, at 13:40, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

This concerns << ... \\ ... \\ ... ... >>

If we have more than one voice, voices are assigned in order:

1/2, 1/2/3, 1/2/3/4, 1/2/3/4/5, 1/2/3/4/5/6 ...

while the documentation is quite explicit that, ordered from top to
bottom, assignments should be more like

1/2, 3/1/2, 3/1/2/4, 5/3/1/2/4, 5/3/1/2/4/6 ...

namely keeping the small voice numbers for the inner voices.  Now I am
sort of afraid that changing this is likely to end pretty disruptive to
existing scores.  Even though I don't know how many really use the
original ordering unchanged as well as intentionally.

Thoughts?

--
David Kastrup

_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
address@hidden
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user