I use partcombine a lot because I am working on a full orchestral score and I need to switch between writing e.g. clarinets on a single staff and clarinets on separate staves. Because of the demands of this notational situation, I always use the manual partcombine commands, rather than the automatic mode. Unfortunately, the manual partcombine commands only sort of work. One particularly annoying limitation that I am running into is that switching manual partcombine modes in the middle of a slur or other spanner creates unpredictable behavior, such as hairpins going off to infinity.
In a tiny example: \version "2.16.0" obI = \relative c''' { \partcombineSoloI g1(~\p\< | \partcombineApart a1)\f | } obII = \relative c' { R1 | f4 e f g | } \new Staff = "1" \partcombine \obI \obII The slur and the dynamics of the first measure are lost because of \partcombineApart. Obviously, this example is musically ridiculous. This sort of situation comes up quite often, though, when I need to have the second voice enter in an additional staff while the first voice continues a phrase. Is there a workaround to this issue? Is this a bug (I don't recall seeing it on the list of bugs for partcombine)? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/changing-part-combine-mode-breaks-spanners-tp132146.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user