Re: Changing voice order...

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2016-11-02 11:20, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I mostly set vocal music - typically clean SATB with exactly four
>>> voices on either two or four staves, but sometimes a voice splits to
>>> two or three in between.  In that case, I'll almost always have a
>>> four-staves situation.  This screams for << \\ >> or << \\ \\ >>.
>>>
>>> However, I attach lyrics to the voices, and that's why I give them
>>> sensible names - namely, "sop" (or "soprano"), "alt", etc.  The
>>> implicit voice naming with << \\ >> means that I have to split my
>>> lyrics to separate context, or I'll have to rename the voices inside
>>> << \\ >>.
>>
>> No, it just means that your lyrics have to follow the staff rather than
>> a single voice unless your lyrics split as well.
>>
>> Can't find the issue number where this was made to work.  Still has
>> problems with overlapping melismata if I remember correctly, so maybe
>> that's why it's not advertised prominently.
>
> Hum.  You mean if I name the staff instead of the voices, I can create
> lyrics that follow all voices that are active on this staff?
> Doesn't seem to work, but I might not have the right syntax.

It's a 2.19 thing.

> By the way, your reply to Werner shows pretty much what I actually
> would consider useful: :-)
>
>> [...]
>> The problem I see right away with that is that it is useful.  How is
>> that a problem?
>>
>> <<
>>   \new Voice = "soprano" {
>>      ...
>>      \voices 1,soprano << ... \\ ... >>
>>      ...
>>   }
>>   \lyricsto "soprano" { ... }
>> >>
>>
>> Lo and behold, we have a solution for an old problem.
>> [...]

That one can actually be done sort-of right away.  It would likely
cement the "2"/\voiceTwo/2nd item relation however.  Which is sort of
the opposite of the proposal I started this discussion with.

-- 
David Kastrup