Re: Problems engraving some unbeautiful music

2016-12-19 Thread Peter Toye
Simon, I agree, and would have written that myself. In fact, as the middle voice is mostly played with the right hand, I'd have moved that to the upper staff as well. But I'm trying to reproduce what the composer (Ivor Gurney) and his editor (Gerald Finzi I think) published, rather than modern

Re: Problems engraving some unbeautiful music

2016-12-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.12.2016 11:51, Peter Toye wrote: I'm trying to engrave the attached score fragment, but can't work out how to get it right. I agree with LP that it's not beautiful, but that's what the composer wrote. The method used in that engraving is nice, but difficult to get right and rarely used.

Re: Problems engraving some unbeautiful music

2016-12-19 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks Rutger. That looks brilliant. I find that the main problem with Lilypond is working out exactly which property of which object to tweak. Presumably this comes with experience. Regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com___ lilypond

Re: Problems engraving some unbeautiful music

2016-12-19 Thread Rutger Hofman
>> >> } On 19-12-16 12:04, Urs Liska wrote: What about the attached? This makes the lower voice \voiceTwo, the middle voice \voiceFour and keeps all the stems downward. Additionally one would have to move the inner voice a little bit to the right so it doesn't touch the lower

Re: Problems engraving some unbeautiful music

2016-12-19 Thread Urs Liska
Peter Toye: > Problems engraving some unbeautiful music I'm trying to engrave the > attached score fragment, but can't work out how to get it right. I > agree with LP that it's not beautiful, but that's what the composer wrote. > > The snippet below is as far as I&

Problems engraving some unbeautiful music

2016-12-19 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to engrave the attached score fragment, but can't work out how to get it right. I agree with LP that it's not beautiful, but that's what the composer wrote. The snippet below is as far as I've got, but there are too many clashes (not surprising). So the cross-staff chords aren't work