OK, that makes sense. I am actually recreating a page of music that was damaged but I have enough of it to piece together and create a replacement page and I was trying to copy it as I received it.
I understand now what you are saying about the multiple parts. I am new at this but this does make sense. Thanks Phil for your help and insight. Stephen >> Phil, >> >> Thanks for your response. That did solve most of the problem but now I am >> getting an accidental on the “c” even though I have the accidental engraving >> turned off. However, I do not get the accidental with just the single part. I >> have revised my markup to demonstrate and have it listed here: > > I've shown you the short-cut way to create multiple voices in LilyPond. > Please read > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices for more > details. The reason the accidental was engraved is that \override > Voice.Accidental.stencil removes the stencil in the current voice. When you > write { ... } \\ { ... } new temporary voices are created, and the stencil > needs to be removed in each { ... } temporary voice as well. > >> What I don’t understand is why \partcombine does not work? Am reading and >> trying to get a handle on this. >> >> Stephen > > Please read the partcombine section of the NR: it's quite clear that this is > designed to combine instrumental parts into a single part wherever possible: > it therefore, I believe, does not put 2 rests where one would do. From > looking at your music, it appeared to me you needed polyphony, not part > combining. > > -- > Phil Holmes _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
