Re: double beams with two voices

[Rune Zedeler]

Brian McMinn wrote:

> I want two voices on the same staff (and I want to
> write each of them as a separate voice, not as a parts
> of a single chord).
> 
> How do I get rid of the extra beam?

I'm not sure I understand what you want.
If you don't want them to be written as chords but as different voices
then you need two beams, and therefore I don't understand that you wan't
to get rid of one of them.
The problem is that they both go up - and you want one of them to go up,
and the other one to go down.
In 1.3.84, I think that you can do

        \context Voice = a \notes \relative c' {\stemup c4 c8 d8 c2}
        \context Voice = b \notes \relative c' {\stemdown e4 e8 f8 e2}

In newer versions use stemUp and stemDown (capital U and D) instead.
I guess that's what you were looking for...?


-Rune