I'm getting a bit confused about the use of variables to reflect the structure of the music, or the distribution of notes between different voices etc.
The passage where I'm struggling with this right now is for one instrument*. The passage has three voices, which I finally decided to split onto two staves (but the beginning is simple enough to put on one staff, using \RemoveEmptyStaffContext and \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t). After it goes to two staves, I have drones and "bass" notes in one staff. The "bass" (though not very low) is there only sometimes. I see a couple of options to write it in ly: - Write a variable for the drones, with \voiceOne and \oneVoice interspersed where needed. - Write lots of variables for the drones, one for each bit where the voice needs to change, and lay them out in the staff block, e.g. \oneVoice \droneA \voiceOne \droneB etc.... The latter may have the advantage of putting all the voice of assignments in one place (the score), but then the variables are too fragmentary to be meaningful to read. I guess it's a fairly vague question. I guess the best way to narrow it down is -- especially asking experienced users -- what level of "atomization" seems to work the best for variables? Can you estimate a rough guideline where breaking the variables down further becomes more cumbersome than it's worth? Thanks, James * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_%28instrument%29 -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
