Am Friday, 26. August 2011, 12:48:28 schrieb Joseph Wakeling: > On 08/26/2011 10:28 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > It's pretty much along the lines of the given verbal description. You > > could also do something like > > > > << c1 { s4\< s2\! s4 } >> > > Is this a new notation for 2.14, or is it missing the \\ ?
Neither. It simply means that the two music expressions ("c1" and the "<< ... >>") are to be interpreted in parallel in the current context. > I ask because when compiling this under 2.12 I get two staves (see > attached). The cause here is once again our beloved implicit context creation... In the above case, no voice or staff has yet been created, the << does also not create one, so when lilypond sees the c1, it creates a voice+staff. When it then processes the s4\<, it does the same, because it is apparently not in the same voice (which was only created for the c1. Wrap \new Voice aroud the <<....>> to explicitly create the voice or staff and it will work: \new Voice { << c1 { s4\< s2\! s4 } >> } Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user