On 9/7/2016 11:56 PM, David F. wrote:
Is there a way to combine two voices and print both stems (up and down) when
the voices share a note? \partcombine does not appear to do this by default.
American SATB hymns are typically engraved with the soprano and alto voices
combined and the tenor and bass voices combined. If a note in the soprano
voice has the same duration as the note in the alto voice, then the notes for
soprano and alto will share a stem. If the durations are different, then there
is no sharing. And if the notes are the same duration and the same pitch, then
the note with have both an up stem and a down stem.
You're not alone with difficulties on American-style part combining.
Another LilyPond user shared some of her work with me, and I'm still
studying the approach she uses. Below is a small example I'm using for
experiments. I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of LilyPond;
maybe someone will take one look and say, "That will mostly work, but
you will run into problems with such-and-such situations."
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA