Single Staff Polyphony

2007-05-27 Thread Norman Hamilton
Hi, I have a question regarding single staff polyphony. When two voices share the same pitch LilyPond (2.6.3) will show the two notes next to each other. I would like to alter this so that only one note appears with beams up and down. If notes have different time values, I'd like the note wi

Centered short staff

2007-07-08 Thread Norman Hamilton
I'm putting together an instructional method book and I need to make a heading which contains a single labeled note. I'd like to make the the staff to be centered and a few inches long. What I have now is a note aligned to the left and a staff the takes up the entire line. Here's an example of