Re: partcombine discards quarter rests, why?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Ah, I found \partcombineApart in the Notation document. :-)

Ken

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 4:11 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Aaron;
>
>   Your example, of course, only contains one measure, for partcombine.
>
>   However, I have most of 32 bars of these, and of those that have
> identical chord durations, I have used 's2.' in the lower voice and
> placed all the chords in the upper voice.  Obviously, I can not have
> chords containing notes of different duration without using two or
> more voices, so I am using partcombine.  Do I need to do this '\once
> \partcombineApart' action for every measure that has this pattern,
> individually?  I've tried using \partcombineApart for merging the
> entire pair of bass voices, and that fails.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 4:04 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Aaron;
> >
> >   This looks like a solution to the problem.  I missed this in the
> > Learning, Notation and Snippets documentation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 3:57 PM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2020-09-05 3:29 pm, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> > > >   I'm using \partcombine to merge two bass lines, one is a dotted half
> > > > note and the other bass one is a quarter rest and a half note.  The
> > > > upper voice has the quarter rest.  The quarter rest is NOT engraved.
> > > > The lower voice, having the dotted half note,is a fifth lower so there
> > > > is no collision, or shouldn't be.
> > >
> > > Probably need to use \partcombineApart.  Consider:
> > >
> > > %%%%
> > > \version "2.20.0"
> > >
> > > {
> > >    \time 3/4
> > >    \clef bass
> > >    \partcombine
> > >    { r4 e2 }
> > >    { \once \partcombineApart a,2. }
> > > }
> > > %%%%
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Aaron Hill
> > >