Re: Rounds/catches with LilyPond

[Francisco Vila]

2011/3/24 Ben Rudiak-Gould <address@hidden>:
> Hello lilypond-users.
>
> I'd like to engrave rounds with LilyPond 2.13 in a part-parallel
> format similar to this:
>
>  http://www.archive.org/stream/nationalsongbook00stan#page/n255/mode/2up
>
> Although this looks simple compared to a lot of the crazy stuff in the
> snippet repository, there is a problem that I don't know how to solve:
> sometimes ties, slurs, or word hyphens/extenders have to stretch from
> the end of one staff to the beginning of the next, as though the
> staves were sequential instead of parallel. (See "She Weepeth Sore",
> above, for an example). Logically they are sequential, of course, but
> I have to tell LilyPond they're parallel to make the notes line up.
>
> Is there any way to solve this? I don't want to turn on strict note
> spacing since it would uglify the score. The best idea I've had is to
> render three consecutive copies of the piece (with the parts rotating)
> and then somehow drop the first and third copies late in the rendering
> process. But that would introduce a bunch of gunk into the source file
> that's unrelated to the logical structure of the piece, it would
> generate spurious warnings for ties and dashes at the end of the third
> copy, LilyPond wouldn't know that the last system is really the last
> so ragged-last options probably wouldn't work, etc. Is there a more
> elegant solution?

I think canons are more usually typeset completely sequential in a
single staff with numbers indicating the time which voices appear at.
This way you'll never experience problems with ties.  Just from my
little experience.  See example attached which coincidentally I had in
my lilypond folder.

-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

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