Am 2016-10-27 13:40, schrieb David Kastrup:
while the documentation is quite explicit that, ordered from top to
bottom, assignments should be more like
1/2, 3/1/2, 3/1/2/4, 5/3/1/2/4, 5/3/1/2/4/6 ...
namely keeping the small voice numbers for the inner voices.
Are you sure? I always understood this as 1/3/5/6/4/2, not 5/3/1/2/4/6
(small numbers for outer voices).
Thoughts?
In three part polyphony the << ... \\ ... \\ ... >> shortcut makes the
third (inner voice) a \voiceThree which means upward stems (and other
automatically set directions). But often one should wants downward
stems, so one needs \voiceFour. This is unintentional because there are
no four voices; and the ordering 1/3/5/6/4/2 is very confusing for
beginners.
Suggestion: change
<< highest \\ lowest \\ second highest \\ second lowest \\ .. >>
to
<< highest ; second highest ; ... \\ ... ; second lowest ; lowest >>
This would be a single \\ to separate upward and downward voices and ;
(or some other symbol) to separate voices of the same kind.
So
<< vI \\ vIII \\ { \voiceFour vII } >>
would become
<< vI \\ vII ; vIII >>
(vIII being the lowest voice)
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