Re: \partcombine doesn't handle quoted notes properly

[Keith OHara]

Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen <at> marnen.org> writes:

> \partcombine doesn't appear to work correctly with quoted music.
> 
> In the attached example, bar 1 of the bottom staff is correctly marked
> "Solo", but bar 2 should have double stems or "a 2" to make clear that both
> flutes are playing.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
> 

This is a bug, now tracked at
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1823

A possible alternative to quoting is to define variables to contain the 
motives that appear in several places,  themeA = {a4 c e ...}, and insert
them where they appear: hornNotes = { c2 e2 \transpose f c \theme A }

The nice thing about community software is that useful features, 
like part-combining and quoting, can be added by contributors.  
Maybe one drawback is that the individual features don't always fit together.