Re: Reducing staff numbers in LilyPond

[Chris Yate]

On 16 Oct 2017 20:38, "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

Hi Ken,

Just to say, as I believe I was the first to start this (!). Email can be tricky and it's easy to cause unintentional offence. Sorry for any misunderstanding!

I didn't mean to imply you're "stupid" to try it, at all. Just as a kindly warning that it might not be the unambiguous notation, and to try to illustrate why. 

In my opinion sticking to conventions is never a bad idea, unless you're doing something exceptionally unconventional (graphic scores, etc). 

Good luck,

Chris