On 16 Oct 2017 20:38, "Ken Williams" <kena...@gmail.com> wrote:



On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:11 PM, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk>
wrote:

> It strikes me that notating this unusual effect on one staff
> increases ambiguity and the potential for mistakes, compared with
> just duplicating the notes on the normal two staves. When choral
> basses look at an E on the bottom line of a treble staff, they
> don't prepare their voices for singing at the top of their range.
>
> It could end up as a neat way of making yourself unpopular with
> Sopranos and Basses alike. Hey, why not go the whole hog and use
> a C clef!
>

I honestly did not expect this kind of response, and I'm getting it from
multiple people.  I asked a technical question and got a whole bunch of
"answers" saying I'm stupid to try to achieve that effect.  Except for
Kieren hinting that it will probably be difficult, there has been *zero*
actual discussion about the technical aspects of it.

If LilyPond or its community isn't friendly to people who want to
experiment with notation, I guess I'm finding that out pretty quickly.

 -Ken


Hi Ken,
Just to say, as I believe I was the first to start this (!). Email can be
tricky and it's easy to cause unintentional offence. Sorry for any
misunderstanding!

I didn't mean to imply you're "stupid" to try it, at all. Just as a kindly
warning that it might not be the unambiguous notation, and to try to
illustrate why.

In my opinion sticking to conventions is never a bad idea, unless you're
doing something exceptionally unconventional (graphic scores, etc).

Good luck,
Chris
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