Hi Luc,
I don't understand why you can't just call the alto "tenor" and call the
tenor "alto". Then just assign tenor to the upper staff and alto to the
lower. Then you can just rename your sections and reassign them to the
proper staff later if you need to change it.
Or are you trying to get some kind of smart stem directioning instead of
just always up or always down?
Daf
On Dec 26, 2007 11:53 PM, Luc Saffre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in a songbook for SATB choir, I'd like to save paper by turning the alto
> stems up and the tenor stems down whenever this is possible. For many
> songs, this would make the result more dense without being less readable.
>
> If you look at the attached satb2.pdf:
> - the first line is the default output with the alto stems down.
> - the second line is how I would like the result to look.
>
> But I had to cheat in order to get the second line. I had to move the
> alto voice partly to the soprano (and tenor to bass). This is more
> difficult to write and has other disadvantages (e.g. I won't get
> separate midi channels for each voice).
>
> Is there a way to keep each voice definition separated and to insert
> commands like "please merge the stems of alto and soprano" and "please
> stop merging"? Something like:
>
> \context Voice = "soprano" \relative g' {
> \key c \major
> \voiceOne g4 e e2 | f4 d d2 | }
> \context Voice = "alto" \relative c' {
> \voiceTwo \mergeStemsTo "soprano" e4 c c2 |
> \stopMerging b8( c) d( c) b2 | }
>
> Thanks in advance for any hints.
> Luc
>
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