Re: Fighting with \cadenzaOn (and loosing :( )

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Son_V" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 2:20 PM
Subject: Fighting with \cadenzaOn (and loosing :( )


> Hi all, sorry for my newbyism, maybe I just know about 10% (at most) of
> LilyPond, but I can't leave it because of the wonderfful graphical output
> ...
> I made a score of a Gregorian chant as I've seen on the web using modern
> notation; using Musescore it was easy to say that a beat should not be 4/4
> but sometimes a 13/8 or 9/8; I exported it to an .xml file and succeeded 
> in
> making it as I would using \cadenzaOn, gaining a score with the a-capo I
> wished,  BUT it was just a one voice score. Now I'm fighting with a SATB
> version of the same score (In Paradisum deducant te Angeli), and can't
> reaally succeed to make it look as I would. I'm inserting \break \bar "|"
> but it doesn't work as I wouldI made a lot of tryings but with no success.
> Can anyone work on my file to make it correct and explain me what i'm 
> doing
> wrong? Many thanks.


When you have a multi-staff (probably actually multi-voice) piece, there 
must be a a point where the music is not continuous in all parts for 
lilypond to find somewhere to put line breaks.  So, for example, if you had 
one voice singing half-note then a full string of whole notes, and the other 
just singing whole notes, there would be no-where for lilypond to break, 
since one voice is always active at any moment.

So: check you've got all the note lengths correct: there is almost certainly 
a cadence point where all the voices pause.

If you can't see a problem, feel free to mail your lilypond file and scan of 
music direct to me and I'll take a look.

--
Phil Holmes