Hi lilyponders. I am currently orchestrating a piece of music using lilypond for the notation. I am using the part-combiner to combine the wind instruments, but I find it to be unusable for the folowing reasons:
- There are to many changes from solo, a due, etc. In one bar I have even 8 changes! When there is just one rest in the combiner it will print solo above it. Obviously there should be at most one change each bar, and in the ideal case it should remain the same for a melody. That would make it easier for a conductor or person reading the score to follow. - It appears that parts will not be combined when a crescendo or diminuendo is active. It should be possible to have an a due part with dynamics. - Rest can be merged more often. When there is the same amount of silence for both instruments, there need only to be one rest, since there can be no ambiguity about who is not playing. - It would be nice if the part-combiner could handle voice-crossings elegantly, for example using a little line to show the direction of the voice. I would like to rewrite the part-combiner, but I have a few questions about doing so: - How can I get the time signature from the voice? - How can I analyse a moment (for example to see if it falls withing a bar)? - Would it be possible to just change the scheme code (since I like more writing scheme than C++ ;-) ? - Will the C++ part of the part-combiner handle dynamics and slurs gratiously for a due parts or chords? Thank you for your time reading this large sandwich of questions :) Kristof Bastiaensen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
