Re: spacing staff...can it be done?

[Dirck Nagy]

Thanks David.

OK, I will not try to create a separate spacing staff!  Thanks!

I'm still a little unclear on the use of "\\"

Here is the score block from a piano template i use. Should i just leave out the "\\"?  It seems to work, just trying it out, but i dont know what other effects this might have.  Is there a better way to set up voices in a template? 

What does the "\\" do, then?  I have other templates with up to 4 voices per staff, 5 in the case of a spacing voice. 

\score {

  \new PianoStaff  <<

    \new Staff = "right" \with {

      midiInstrument = "acoustic grand"

    } << \rightOne \\ \rightTwo >>

    \new Staff = "left" \with {

      midiInstrument = "acoustic grand"

    } { \clef bass << \leftOne \\ \leftTwo >> }

  >>

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Dirck Nagy <dnagy@uwlax.edu> writes:

> OK, i just remembered there is a \stemNeutral command.
>
> This solves my immediate problem...sorry for the trouble!

No, it doesn't.  It just changes stem direction but not other voicing
characteristics.  Changing back to neutral voice settings is done using
\oneVoice instead.

But you should not need to change _back_ at all.  As mentioned in
another post, you are likely misusing \\ for something it is not good
for.

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David Kastrup