Hi Simon, > I’d vote to keep with four staves, at least in this example.
For the record, I sometimes do that. One good example is “Go Thy Way”, a score of which you can see at <http://kierenmacmillan.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/GoThyWay_octavo_20151111.pdf?f8f128>. But that’s a short a cappella piece, with just enough polyphonic differences (homophonic offsets, mostly) that it never makes sense to be in two staves for very long. “Wither’s Carol” is longer and more complex; it has instrumental parts (and/or a piano reduction); it alternates between a cappella, instrumental, and combined-forces sections, etc. Ultimately, sticking to four chorus staves doesn’t make much sense [in all score outputs], in my opinion. By the way: the “Go Thy Way” score is “almost final”. That will give you a sense of the amount of stylesheeting and edition-engraver tweaking I do to my scores, to overcome Lilypond’s shortcomings (e.g., the BarNumber padding bug you saw in the “minimal” example I supplied for this thread). I would do even more, but there’s a point of diminishing marginal utility: at some point, I’d rather compose a new piece than sit and tweak the engraving of an old one. ;) Thanks, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
