I have been playing with LilyPond on and off for a while now. I'm a programmer and musician, so I feel like I have a head start. But it's--impressive--heavy duty stuff. I'm still really doing only the basics with LilyPond.
Anyway, I arrange acapella music. I want to get away from arranging by pencil and paper, once and for all, and switch over completely to LilyPond. I am unable to figure out one major need, which I hope someone out there might be able to help me with. --- I can compose the following in LilyPond, no problem. Five vocal parts for an acapella piece, each on their own staff. Here's an example: http://jeffyepstein.com/posts/merge_parts_question/before.jpg What I need to do, is to merge parts together, arbitrarily, differently within each "master staff" (each set of staves, on each new line on the printout...sorry, don't know the right terminology). Here's what I'm looking to do: http://jeffyepstein.com/posts/merge_parts_question/before.jpg 1-4: So from measures 1 through 4, it should be the same (one staff per part). 5-9: But on measures 5 through 10, it should be sop1+sop2 on one staff, alto1+alto2 on the second, and tenor by himself. 10-14: Finally, measures 10-14 should be sop2 on the top staff, and sop1+alto1+alto2 on the second. And so on. This will condense the printout by a LOT, and it feels necessary if I'm going to dive further into LilyPond as an acapella arranger. Perhaps I'm missing something easier? I would greatly appreciate your advice on how to either do what I'm trying here, or perhaps I just need to think about this problem differently? Thank you!!! _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
