Re: Do we really offer the future?

[Trevor Daniels]

James Harkins wrote Wednesday, April 22, 2015 11:21 AM

> Even after a few years of using LP, it's still kind of a mindf... erm, 
> mind-blower that notes appear close together in the score but they may be 
> written in widely separated locations in the LP code.

Although not well-publicised there is a way of entering multi-voice or 
multi-staff music complete bar by complete bar.  There is a restriction that 
bars must be all the same length, but at least all the notes of a bar are 
entered together and remain close together in the LP source.

See 
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#writing-music-in-parallel

Trevor