Re: Hairpins in Polyphony

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Jay,

> Ok Neil's second suggestion "voices" worked but I don't understand  
> why it works
> and why \\  should be avoided

Read the doc section on "Explicitly instantiating voices" — that will  
explain it.

> (or why to avoid \\ when it's all over the documentation as the way  
> to do polyphony )

That's a doc bug, as I've mentioned on this list many times… In fact,  
I consider it a Lilypond bug, in that the shorthand

  << a \\ b >>

should (IMO) automatically become

  << { \voiceOne a } \new Voice { \voiceTwo b } >> \oneVoice

rather than what it currently does.

Regards,
Kieren.