Re: Staff change in piano music - a general approach?

[Shane Brandes]

place this before the offending alto note.
\once\override Stem #'flag-style = #'no-flag
 That will resolve the issue but i no no convenient way of doing that
for a large score with many such instances in any convenient way.

regards.
Shane

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Tobias Braun
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Yes, you perfectly understood me. But using chords is totally impractical for 
> me as I already have the individual voices as LilyPond code.
>
> I tried as you described below and I'm getting a little closer. However, 
> there are still some problems, one of which you can see in the attached 
> example: the final chord consisting of two eighth notes actually looks like a 
> sixteenth note chord.
>
> \override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t
> is just to suppress the collision warnings, right?
>
> Regards,
> Tobias
>
>
> % example
>
> \version "2.12.3"
>
> global = {
>        \clef treble
>        \time 2/2
>        \key g \dorian
> }
>
> soprano = \relative c''' {
>        \voiceOne
>        g4 g d4. e8 |
> }
>
> alto = \relative c'' {
>        \voiceOne
>        b4 c b4. c8 |
> }
>
> tenor = \relative c'' {
>        \voiceTwo
>        g4 g g2 |
> }
>
> \score {
>        \new Staff <<
>                \global
>                \override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t
>                \new Voice { \soprano }
>                \new Voice { \alto }
>                \new Voice { \tenor }
>        >>
> }
>
>
>
>
> Am 30.12.2010 um 11:21 schrieb Phil Holmes:
>
>> Just checking - you can obviously do what you want from a presentation 
>> perspective, since you've provided an example that looks like it came from 
>> LilyPond.  I presume you did this using chords, but you want to avoid using 
>> chords in your application?
>>
>> The way I would do this would be to use:
>>
>> \override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t
>>
>> and then set the alto and soprano parts in voiceOne, and the tenor part in 
>> voiceTwo.  You do not need to set these for the duration of the piece, so 
>> when you cross the tenor part to the other stave, you can put the command 
>> \voiceTwo in the alto part and it will now be set into the second voice. You 
>> can also set \voiceOne for the tenor part.  You may also want to do:
>>
>> \override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##f
>>
>> at the same point.
>>
>> Let us know how you get on.
>>
>> --
>> Phil Holmes
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias Braun" <address@hidden>
>> To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: <address@hidden>; "LilyPond User Group" <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 1:50 AM
>> Subject: Re: Staff change in piano music - a general approach?
>>
>>
>> Sorry about the "reply all" thing, I forgot that.
>>
>> I wasn't aware I was sending an HTML e-mail, sorry. That must have been my 
>> webmail client.
>>
>> What I actually want to achieve is to have it look as uncluttered as 
>> possible. It should be easy to read when playing it on the piano. I'd 
>> basically like to merge all three voices into as few stems as possible. E.g. 
>> the notes of the first beat in measure 1 which basically form a chord 
>> consisting of three notes of the same duration played at the same time 
>> should appear as "stacked", not next to each other. There is no need to be 
>> able to distinguish the individual voices.
>>
>> As this is kind of hard to describe, please have a look at the attached PDF. 
>> I guess I'd prefer the first measure to look like "Variant 1", but "Variant 
>> 2" would be acceptable as well. (I achieved this sample PDF through <> chord 
>> syntax, which is not of much use to me as I already have the individual 
>> voices in continuous form.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tobias
>
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