Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote:
> On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote:
> 
> >if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus
> >you:
> >
> >1) save typing
> >2) help lilypond so it does't need to waste time guessing obvious things
> >and it can concentrate on the big stuff :)
> >
> >you just need to create a third voice with spacers and all the common
> >marks, in parallel with the other two:

I'm not at all certain that's a good idea.  The dynamics won't be
present in MIDI (which is probably no great loss), but more
importantly, it messes up the semantics for no particularly good
reason.

> Is there somewhere in the docs that I should have spotted this
> before doing it wrong the first time?

If this was a good idea, it should be in (in the 2.13 docs)
  Usage 5 Suggestions for writing files

Cheers,
- Graham