Thanks Keith - this works brilliantly. Occasionally the part combiner will 
duplicate dynamics even though they are identical, so once in a while I have to 
force a 'partcombineChords' or 'partcombineUnisono' as necessary, but this is a 
small price to pay. Thanks again.

On 15 Aug 2013, at 06:11, Keith OHara [via Lilypond] 
<ml-node+s1069038n149196...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:

> Dominic <dominicirving <at> gmail.com> writes: 
> 
> > My goal is to produce an orchestral score which both 
> > - uses *\partcombine* 
> > - has dynamics separately defined 
> 
> To make this go smoothly, you will probably need to keep in mind how 
> \partcombine works. \partcombine takes two music expressions and routes 
> each note into one of four Voices (depending on whether the players are 
> in unison, making chords, or soloI or soloII) and the system is a bit 
> fragile.  If you manage the voices in the expressions that go into 
> \partcombine, that can confuse the system. 
> 
> If you include the dynamics in the music for each player as it goes into 
> \partcombine, it will merge the dynamics and keep them attached to the 
> voice that is printing the notes so they are aligned to the notes. 
> 
> dd = {s4\p\< s s s\f s1 \bar "|."} 
> aa = << 
>   \dd 
>   {e4 f g a b\mf c' d' e'} >> 
> bb = << 
>   \dd 
>   {c4 d e f } >> 
> \new Staff { \transpose c c' \partcombine \aa \bb } 
> 
> 
> 
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