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note collisions .... and \layout question
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Steven Butner |
Subject: |
note collisions .... and \layout question |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:41:45 -0700 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) |
I must admit to being quite confused about the proper setup of \score
and \layout for vocal music. I am trying to typeset a 3-part men's
vocal piece and the composer has drawn it out on a single bass clef
staff ... i.e. 3 parts sharing the same staff.
My method for using Lilypond to typeset this is to type in the notes
(music expressions) of the three voices separately, naming each of them
One, Two, and Three respectively (per the composer's naming
conventions). Then I use the \staff and \layout code below to put the
three voices together (with lyrics) on a single staff.
\score {
\new StaffGroup <<
\new Staff = men { <<
\clef bass
\new Voice = ten { \global \Three }
\new Voice = bar { \global \Two }
\new Voice = bas { \global \One }
>>
}
\new Lyrics = "l3" \lyricsto "bas" \words
>>
\layout {
\context { \Score \override SeparationItem #'padding = #0.3 }
\context { \Staff \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent =
#'(-3 . 3) }
\context { \Staff \accepts "Lyrics" }
\context { \Lyrics \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #1.6 }
}
The resulting compilation results in many, many occurrences of the message
warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns
Indeed, I am getting a lot of flags and bars on top of others and, in
general, quite a mess. There are some cases where two notes a small
interval apart have their note heads essentially on top of each other as
well. I've tried going into the source and marking it \noFlag for
various notes ... and this helps, but there are so many of these
collision errors that I feel I must be doing something that is rather
basic wrong.
I've used Lilypond to typeset several pieces in the past without running
into this problem .... but each seems structurally a bit different and,
though I've read a lot of documentation, I've never had a good
understanding of how to properly use the Staffs and Layout and Contexts.
Any suggestions of guidance on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm
using lilypond version 2.8.0 running on Linux Fedora Core 6.
Steve Butner,
novice typesetter ....
- note collisions .... and \layout question,
Steven Butner <=