Re: Tip: lyrics with polyphony / stem directions (without specifically instantiated voices)

[Mats Bengtsson]

Looking back at the section on Explicitly instantiating voices, I now 
notice that
more or less the same idea is already used, but with different shapes of 
the note
heads instead of using different colors. The example also shows the use of
explicit \voiceOne, \voiceTwo and  \oneVoice commands.

Mark, what do you say? Is the current example in the manual too complex so
that the main points are not clear enough? Should we replace that example
by Kieren's?

(For the record, there are plenty of answers to similar questions in the 
mailing list
archives, that show exactly the same construct. I'm surprised that you 
didn't find
them.)

  /Mats

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Excellent idea! I will add something like this to the manual, extended 
> with
> yet another example that shows how to manually specify \voiceOne and 
> so on.
>
>   /Mats
>
> Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > > It looks like there is a solution to the problem
> >
> > Glad it worked!
> >
> > > perhaps people in the past just didn't understand the questions of 
> > > the people asking properly . . .
> >
> > Perhaps... that's why I kept trying to clarify what question you were 
> > really asking, so that I could answer the question you were really 
> > asking!  =)
> >
> > Graham: may I suggest one thing that might help the docs? In 6.3 
> > (especially .4, Explicitly instantiating voices), maybe if the notes 
> > in each Voice context were independently (i.e., differently) 
> > coloured, the examples (and thus the constructs and internal Lilypond 
> > mechanisms) would be even more clear immediately?
> >
> > For an example, see the attached snippet.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Kieren.
> > _______________
> >
> > \version "2.11.30"
> >
> > \markup \wordwrap { At first it may be difficult to understand why 
> > the three C notes are not tied in the following example: }
> > \score
> > {
> >     \new Staff \relative c''
> >     {
> >         c ~ << { c ~ } \\ { a } >> c           }
> > }
> >
> > \markup \wordwrap { By colouring the main Voice red, the problem 
> > becomes clear: }
> > \score
> > {
> >     \new Staff \relative c''
> >     {
> >         \override Voice.NoteHead #'color = #red
> >         c ~ << { c ~ } \\ { a } >> c
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > \markup \wordwrap
> > {
> >     Within the \typewriter {"<< \\\ >>"} polyphony section, two 
> > completely new Voice contexts, independent from the main Voice, have 
> > been constructed automatically by Lilypond. There are several ways to 
> > compensate for this instantiation, but the easiest is simply to avoid 
> > the \typewriter { "\\\ " } construct entirely — within the "<< >>" 
> > construct, any notes before an explicit \typewriter { "\\new Voice" } 
> > command will belong to the main Voice context (i.e., the one 
> > “outside” the polyphony):
> > }
> > \score
> > {
> >     \new Staff \relative c''
> >     {
> >         \override Voice.NoteHead #'color = #red
> >         c ~ << { c ~ } \new Voice { a } >> c
> >     }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
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