Hi Jeff, > 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).
"System". > 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? The basics of polyphony -- both single-staff and multi-staff -- are explained fairly well in the docs; see, for example, <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#single_002dstaff-polyphony> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#automatic-part-combining> As for your requirement/desire to have the merging done "arbitrarily, differently within each [system]"... that is much more difficult, and NOT currently supported by Lilypond. It's #1 on my Long-Term Feature Wishlist, but it's so large that I haven't even submitted it yet because the desired result has yet to be fully formed in my mind. Essentially, Lilypond would have to consider all possible combinations (e.g., S+A+T+B, SA+TB, S+AT+B, SATB unis, etc.), calculate all possible layouts, and then come back with the "best fit", with the partcombiner doing its thing where appropriate -- spectacularly difficult algorithmically, and spectacularly (and nonlinearly) expensive from a compilation perspective. Good luck! Kieren. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
