On 2024-09-22 22:13, Paul Scott wrote:
How can I make this happen in one staff with all the stems down?
\version "2.25.19"
\fixed c'' { << { e8( f~2.) } { e8( f d2.) } >> }
In addition to the responses you already received:
- The reason that you get two staves is that you start the score with a
<< ... >> without explicitly creating a Staff, and Lilypond's attempt to
create Staff and Voice contexts itself gives this unwanted results. The
simple solution is to add \new Staff in front of \fixed
- If you do that, you will get a number of warnings when processing the
file, and ugly typesetting. The solution, as mentioned before, is to use
the << ... \\ ... >> construct, but if you really want both voices to
have downward pointing stems, then they should be voices number 2 and 4.
This can either be obtained using two empty voices for voice 1 and 3:
\version "2.25.19"
\new Staff \fixed c'' { << {} \\ { e8( f~2.) } \\ {} \\ { e8( f d2.) } >> }
or using the \voices command:
\version "2.25.19"
\new Staff \fixed c'' { \voices 2,4 << { e8( f~2.) } \\ { e8( f d2.) } >> }
This is all described in the "1.5.2 Multiple Voices" section of the
Notation Reference manual for version 2.25.
In the end, you might keep the conclusion you already reached, that it's
better to find some alternative notation.
/Mats
