Re: stemUp stemDown with chords

[Eduardo Vieira]

Hello!
Try the following (Also read the manual where it says "explicitly instanting 
voices"):

<< \new Voice {\voiceOne d'4 c'2} {\voiceTwo b4 a2}>> \oneVoice

Cheers,

Eduardo



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Dewey" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 3:45 AM
Subject: stemUp stemDown with chords


> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems with chords and stem direction.
>
> It seems whenever I want one note of the chord to go up and the other to 
> go
> down, I cannot specify this with \stemUp and \stemDown (doing it to one 
> note in
> the chord will do it to all of them).
>
> How do I make it specific to one note (or one voice)?
>
> For instance, I can't just type the following:
>
> <<{\stemUp d'4 c'2} {\stemDown b4 a2}>>
>
> Now, I can do the following
> <<{d'4 c'2} \\ {b4 a2}>>
> to get this effect naturally.  However, the need to do this is not always
> desirable.  For example, when I type the following:
> << d'2. \\ {c'2 (b4)} >>
> I run into the bug where the dot of d'2. is slightly blocked by the note 
> head of
> c'2.  If I get rid of the \\ then all the stems face the same direction 
> and
> cannot face different directions, it seems.
>
> Anyway, a way around this would be nice.  Anyone know of one?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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