On Sep 13, 2016, at 4:14 PM, Rutger Hofman <rut...@cs.vu.nl> wrote: > On 09/13/2016 11:32 PM, David Wright wrote: >> On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 21:56:04 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: >>> On 12/09/16 19:21, Karlin High wrote: >>>> On 9/7/2016 11:56 PM, David F. wrote: >>>>> Is there a way to combine two voices and print both stems (up and down) >>>>> when the voices share a note? \partcombine does not appear to do this by >>>>> default. >>>>> >>>>> American SATB hymns are typically engraved with the soprano and alto >>>>> voices combined and the tenor and bass voices combined. If a note in the >>>>> soprano voice has the same duration as the note in the alto voice, then >>>>> the notes for soprano and alto will share a stem. If the durations are >>>>> different, then there is no sharing. And if the notes are the same >>>>> duration and the same pitch, then the note with have both an up stem and >>>>> a down stem. >>>> >>>> You're not alone with difficulties on American-style part combining. >>>> Another LilyPond user shared some of her work with me, and I'm still >>>> studying the approach she uses. Below is a small example I'm using for >>>> experiments. I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of LilyPond; >>>> maybe someone will take one look and say, "That will mostly work, but >>>> you will run into problems with such-and-such situations." >>>> -- >>>> Karlin High >>>> Missouri, USA >>> <snip> > > My guess is that \partcombine #'(1 . 9) or \partcombine #'(2 . 9) does what > you specify. I attach code for default partcombine and both your options. > Beware that stem crossings need to lead to uncombined notes.
Why 9 as the second argument to \partcombine? David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
