Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi Antheo, > >> so it seems that chords noted <> does not allow to set individual duration >> but << >> allows it? > > Be sure to read the documentation carefully: > <> is a chord structure. > <<>> is not a chord structure. > >> That seems the best solution. > > Not as far as I can see. > >> Is there a way to have this patch make it into the next version? > > I highly doubt it.
Well, << >> is for parallel music without creating a separate voice (and separate stems), and chords executed in that manner would appear to fall straight in that category. The code already _does_ the right thing. It just complains. So what's the actual problem? What is particularly wrong about that sort of patch? I mean, it would be nice to have a contextlet "chordconstituent" that does not have a stem engraver, and let < > channel into such chordconstituents, and offer some other mechanism to funnel into that as well, but... Subvoices have been killed already. > More likely, the <> construct would be changed to allow for mixed > durations, with the greatest duration being the "winner" -- but even > this has its pitfalls, so I doubt this will happen either. Chords take their lengths outside. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
