On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM, James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Have you tried using \partcombine on bass and drones? hope this helps, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
