Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

[James Bailey]

On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:21 AM, James Wilkinson wrote:

> On 10/11/10 6:22 PM, James Bailey wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Maybe I misunderstand, but if I do:
>> {
>>  <<
>>   \relative c' { c4 d e f<<  { g a g f } \\ { e2 d }>>  e4 f e d c1 }
>>   {s1\mf s4\<  s\! s\>  s\! s1\p s }
>>  >>
>> }
>> 
>> The dynamics show up in the MIDI. And if they're separated into variables, I 
>> can change the dynamics and the music independantly and easily, without fuss 
>> or muss.
> 
> I ran this and got the dynamics on a separate staff with no notes. I don't 
> think that's what you meant.

Sorry, I forgot the \new Staff before the <<>>