Re: part combiner

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

> I finished the scheme part of the part-combiner.  Attached is the patch.

Great, thanks.  Do you have an example of what cases/bugs have been
fixed?  Do the regression tests still work?

> There are still bugs in the C part which I cannot solve:

It would be nice to create small snippets for these bugs, and submit
them to bug-lilypond.

> - When there are two voices unisilence, one of them a multimeasure rest,
> and the other a smaller rest, than sometimes the multimeasure rest
> swallows the other, with the result that there appears a gap before the
> first note.
>
> - Sometimes slur-events are swallowed, so a slur appears to have no end.
>
> - Multimeasure rests are not positioned according to their voice, but
> always appear in the middle.
>
> I would solve these problems myself if I could, but it would take to much
> time with my limited understanding of lilypond internals.

I'll leave this for Han-Wen to look at, he's written the previous,
second incarnation of the part combiner.

Have you considered part-combining for Hymns?  The first part-combiner
partly did that right, but the current one does not work for hymns.

Jan.

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