Re: Engraving a triple-stop for violin

[David Kastrup]

Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> writes:

> Am Sonntag, 9. Juli 2023, 09:42:52 CEST schrieb David Kastrup:
>> The latter is definitely the _natural_ way to enter this construct
>> (single voice simultaneity) but I do seem to remember that LilyPond did
>> not deal well with it?
>
> The thing is that if we combine Simultaneous Music with implicit context 
> creation Lilypond will create a context for each simultaneous music 
> expression. So doing

No, there were also typesetting problems, like head
attachments/dimensions for differently shaped heads, and consistent
duration (and beaming) depending on head order.  I don't remember the
details but do remember that this did not generally work reliably.

-- 
David Kastrup