Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

[Trevor Daniels]

address@hidden> wrote Friday, July 19, 2013 7:10 AM

> On 2013/07/18 20:47:05, dak wrote:
>
>> So what would be a nice and natural user interface, and
>> what pieces are missing from it?
> 
> <<
>   \new Staff \with { printPartCombineTexts = ##f } <<
>     \new HiddenVoice = "voiceForLyrics" \sopranoNotes
>     \new Voice {
>       \key g \major
>       \partcombine \sopranoNotes \altoNotes
>     }
>   >>
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voiceForLyrics" \words
> 
> "HiddenVoice" could also be "LyricsVoice" I suppose, but
> "HiddenVoice" seems more sematically flexible.
> 
> So yes, I would save untold hours if I had this feature.  I
> can't speak for anyone else, but we might ask the other
> choral-music typesetters among us for their opinion.

I agree entirely.  A Voice context that did not take part
in layout or midi would be a great help in choral music.

Trevor