Hi Neil, > Well, I'm clueless about how to help with your issue. > But congrats on the premiere/recording!
Thanks! When the CD is released, I'll be sure to let everyone know where to buy their obligatory 12-or-so copies. ;) Cheers, Kieren. > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Kieren MacMillan > <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I write [and engrave] a lot of choral music. >> >> There's one big thing I want to do in Lilypond, and wanted to get some >> opinions on the matter... >> >> In my choral music, there are often large sections of unison and two-part >> writing, as well as four- and [complex] eight-part writing. That is to say, >> often the music can be completely represented on a single staff, but usually >> it needs two or three or four, and every once in a while it requires eight >> (i.e., one staff per vocal part). >> >> In a perfect world, I would like to indicate [in the .ly code] where a Voice >> *requires* its own Staff context, and then have Lilypond make the >> Staff-generating [partcombine?] decisions automatically, in order to get the >> best overall spacing. So (e.g.) if half-way through a system a unison >> section would [need to] break into four staves, either Lilypond would >> "back-quote" the unison music to fill the first half of the system, or >> insert a break at that point and respace the section accordingly, so that >> the "split" happens at the beginning of the new system. [I hope I've >> adequately explained what I'm looking for.] >> >> Right now, I'm using a somewhat complex combination of \quoteDuring [drawing >> from a "unison" variable] and manual breaks to accomplish this task. But I >> was hoping there might be a way to get it automated, mostly or fully. >> >> Since it would impact horizontal as well as vertical spacing, I imagine that: >> 1. The logic/algorithm/code would have to be in an engraver, and maybe >> even in C++, as opposed to in a Scheme function. >> 2. It might require multiple passes [like the old two-pass spacing macro]. >> 3. What I'm asking for might not be possible at all. >> >> Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> Kieren. >> >> p.s. At the U.S. premiere (and CD recording) of my "Fantasy Variations" this >> past weekend in Arizona, I got more compliments on the score/parts -- yay, >> Lilypond! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> > > > > -- > Neil Thornock, D.M. > Check out the newly designed website! > http://neilthornock.net > Assistant Professor of Music > Composition/Theory > Brigham Young University > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
