Re: hideNotes

[Urs Liska]

Am 06.12.2013 17:31, schrieb Phil Holmes:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Noeck" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 4:21 PM
Subject: hideNotes

Hi,

currently \hideNotes does not hide articulations, slurs, ties etc.
Is that on purpose?

...

Whether it's deliberate or not, it's very useful.  You can use hidden notes as a starting and ending point for slurs, ties, etc., and thus often overcome limitations with them moving into or out of voices.  Not a good idea to change this, IMHO.

I find this solution very problematic.
http://lilypondblog.org/2013/07/voice-contexts-in-temporary-polyphonic-sections/
shows part of the problem, a post on cross-voice curves has yet to be written.

\hideNotes makes the notes _transparent_. This causes them to be invisible but part of the collision avoidance.
In particular with notes with flags you'll run into the situation that the slur just doesn't do what you want because it avoids the invisible flag.

So in my experience it is generally cleaner to do remove the stencil.
At least one should be aware of that issue and explicitly decide whether to hide or remove the items.

Urs