Hi Knute, All,
I'm currently using LP v. 2.24.1.
OK I'll try importing musicxml score using latest musicxml2ly if it
makes sense.
In my opinion the cause of the voices' mess is laying in the initial
Finale's file.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 5:22 PM Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 5:53 AM Antanas Budriūnas <antan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> It was quite a while I was out of the LP community, a dosen of years
>> to be honest.
>> I hope all is well with you all.
>>
>> I got a music score from about that time written in Finale.
>> I exported it into musicxml using Finale Notepad and after that used
>> musicxml2ly to get you guess what.
>> There's a piano part (pianoStaff) with very little polyphony but the
>> piano music is actually spreaded across 8 voices (4 voices per staff) which
>> makes it very difficult to manage notehead collisions, rest positions,
>> steam directions etc.
>> Most of the parts contains lots of "r" and "s" and only few notes in
>> random places.
>> I wish I had one voice per staff and then manually alter those few places
>> to temporarily introduce a second voice.
>> So partcombine isn't a choice because I need another step forward in
>> merging direction.
>>
>> A minimal example:
>> % input
>> parta = { a4 b8 c d2}
>> partb = { e4 r r f }
>> % output
>> abmerge = {<e a>4 b8 c d4 f}
>>
>> I am not talking about parts containing << \\ >> or \new voice yet.
>>
>> I have a feeling it's out of Lilypond's scope. Maybe it could be
>> implemented using Frescobaldi's extension.
>>
>
> You don't mention which version of LilyPond you use to run mussicxml2ly,
> but a new version has just come out and I know a lot of work has been done
> on it. It may not do what you want, but it's worth a try.
>
>
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> Knute Snortum
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Antanas Budriūnas
