Hi Kevin, On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 7:38 PM Kevin Cole <dc.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at a pice of music that shows an arpeggio between two > dotted half-notes in one voice and a quarter-note in the other voice. > Specifically, in the wee snippet below, the first e4 in the first > voice is at the top of the arpeggio above the <gs~ b>2 in the second > voice. > Having a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/arpeggio#index-arpeggio_002c-cross_002dvoice it turns out there's a Span_arpeggio_engraver you can add to take care of this. Also, a Staff.connectArpeggios property to set. Adding those in, your example becomes: \version "2.25.10" \language "english" music = \relative c' { \set Staff.connectArpeggios = ##t % Need to tell Lilypond to play connect the dots with the arpeggios << { e4\arpeggio e4 b4 | % 1 - Need to mark both top and bottom of connected arpeggios e2 b8[ b8] | % 2 } \\ { <gs~ b>2.\arpeggio | % 1 - Need to mark both top and bottom of connected arpeggios \stemUp gs2 \stemNeutral s4 | % 2 } >> } \new Staff \with { \consists "Span_arpeggio_engraver" % Could also be done in a layout block } { \time 3/4 % Just a guess? Fixes the barcheck error \new Voice { \music } } -- Michael
