"Marc Mouries" <m...@mouries.net> writes: > Tim Rowe <digi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You've made the whole thing look like a quarter-note to Lilypond, but >> persuaded it to show *you* the top note as a half-note. As far as >> Lilypond is concerned, it's still a quarter note but printed "wrongly" >> so it looks like a half-note. It still only occupies the time duration >> of a quarter note, so the bar would be missing a quarter note without >> the skip. >> >> Marc's suggestion is to do it the other way around and make the whole >> thing look to Lilypond like a half-note, so the timing is all just >> fine, but tell it to print the /lower/ notes "wrongly" so they look >> like quarter-notes. > >> Does that make it clearer? > > > Yes I got it but both ways are like a hack. It would be so much better > and logical if lilypond would allow to enter individual duration for > each note of a chord. This would deserve to be added to the doc.
You mean, you'd like something like the following to work: < <<c4 e4 g2>> > But actually, something like \new Voice { << g'4 c''4 e''2 >> } works just fine modulo nonsensical warnings: /tmp/junk.ly:1:25: warning: adding note head to incompatible stem (type = 4) \new Voice { << g'4 c''4 e''2 >> } /tmp/junk.ly:1:25: warning: maybe input should specify polyphonic voices \new Voice { << g'4 c''4 e''2 >> } Of course, the stems are perfectly compatible. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user