Re: Reducing staff numbers in LilyPond

[Guy Stalnaker]

Ken,

Your experience mirrors my own on this list. I tend, for that reason, to "lurk" on the list and use its archives and the Lilypond Snippet Repository as much as possible. For my own purposes that has usually sufficed. Sorry.

But don't give up on Lilypond! It is an amazing beast. Unfortunately I've personally no idea how to do what you want to do.

Regards.

Guy Stalnaker
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Ken Williams <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:11 PM, David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:

It strikes me that notating this unusual effect on one staff
increases ambiguity and the potential for mistakes, compared with
just duplicating the notes on the normal two staves. When choral
basses look at an E on the bottom line of a treble staff, they
don't prepare their voices for singing at the top of their range.

It could end up as a neat way of making yourself unpopular with
Sopranos and Basses alike. Hey, why not go the whole hog and use
a C clef!

I honestly did not expect this kind of response, and I'm getting it from multiple people.  I asked a technical question and got a whole bunch of "answers" saying I'm stupid to try to achieve that effect.  Except for Kieren hinting that it will probably be difficult, there has been *zero* actual discussion about the technical aspects of it.

If LilyPond or its community isn't friendly to people who want to experiment with notation, I guess I'm finding that out pretty quickly.  

 -Ken

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