On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 10:18:45 (+0200), Urs Liska wrote: > Am 08.09.2016 um 10:09 schrieb Phil Holmes: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Urs Liska" <u...@openlilylib.org> > > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 7:47 AM > > Subject: Re: Combining voices in American Hymns > >> Am 08.09.2016 um 07:14 schrieb Noeck: > >>> it is on the same page in the docs: > >>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices > >>> The normal \voiceOne and \voiceTwo contruct shows each voice with their > >>> stems (and slurs etc.) in different directions. > >>> > >>> Partcombine is exactly for the case you don't want: to print two voices > >>> combined into one without different stems for same notes. > >> > >> But on the very same page are also described the commands > >> \partcombineApart > >> and > >> \partcombineApartOnce > >> > >> which do exactly what you need (if I'm not mistaken completely). > > > > Partcombine has been improved in 2.19. See > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#automatic-part-combining > > Ah, sorry, of course it's not "the very same page" ...
There's another "feature" of American hymn books illustrated on http://www.hymnary.org/text/amazing_grace_how_sweet_the_sound#pagescans which I haven't seen any mention of before, and only noticed recently when thumbing my way through a hymnbook during a boring hymn. We're used to seeing lyrics left-aligned when under a melisma, but centred under the note otherwise. However, some hymnbooks left-align the first lyric on each printed line regardless. The second hymn from the left, which is a link to http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/G32011/page/484 shows this. I don't want it, but can LP do this automatically? This example also left-aligns the start of each poetic line, which is easy to do oneself of course. The next example along http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CGH2010/page/554 doesn't treat poetic lines, but only the printed lines and melismas. As we're on the subject, I've noticed that some hymnbooks also add verse numbers at the start of each printed line once the number of verses reaches five, which was the subject of http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-06/msg00469.html I don't know how they would interact with these alignments. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
