Re: tie from multiple voice?

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Tom,

Am 03.12.21 um 16:02 schrieb Tom Sgouros:
> Thanks, but I'm not sure I completely understand. What you're saying 
> is that if you don't define a voice immediately, you still get one, 
> but its name is nothing ("")? So in my multi-voice segment I can 
> explicitly reference the voice-with-no-name as you are showing with 
> the \voices construct? That makes sense, if that's correct.

Yes, that's basically correct (I'm just not sure if the sentence "its 
name is nothing" is technically correct, but anyway it's what the 
situation amounts to).

If you do \new Staff, then the music you enter is still in a "Voice" 
context that is created implicitly. We could create it explicitly and 
also give it a name:

\new Staff \new Voice = main {

 % bla

}

and then use \voices main,2 << \\ >> for multi-voice music where the 
first voice is a continuation of the "main" voice (and hence can be tied 
to notes outside of << \\ >>).

But notice what Akikazu wrote: If we use \voices with non-number id's, 
LilyPond does not do the \voiceOne / \voiceOne automatically that's 
responsible for stem directions, shifting etc. So we have to add them 
manually, which I forgot to do in my example, unfortunately.

Best
Lukas