Re: Issue 2253 in lilypond: Markup in separate voices in \partcombine results in "stacked" markup.

[lilypond]

Comment #1 on issue 2253 by address@hidden: Markup in separate voices in  
\partcombine results in "stacked" markup.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2253

I have just now pushed the remaining parts of issue 2240 to staging, so  
this changes the game somewhat.  In the new situation, the above input  
would mean attaching the respective markups to _note_ events.  In this case  
it makes some sense to retain the output belonging to individual notes  
individually.

In the situation where the bug report was placed, however, this input was  
perfectly equivalent to
<c''4>_\markup { loud }
so the output was placed on the resulting _chord_.  In this case, there is  
no point in retaining the non-noteevent-specific markup two times.

The question is whether we should, in the new situation, differentiate both  
cases (currently apparently not done).  Which would mean that if you wanted  
a merged "articulation", you would have to write it as a chord rather than  
as a note articulation.

Anyway, it may be worth pointing out that a fix of any kind will likely  
have to take into account the just-now changed behavior of LilyPond.