Re: How to structure piano music?

[David Kastrup]

Noeck <address@hidden> writes:

>> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/voices-contain-music
>
> Thanks, but I meant more technically. Is there anything more, a voice
> does than setting those directions and shifts? If I only want to set the
> mentioned directions but no shifts. Is it better to use voices and turn
> the shifts off or not to use them and set the directions?

\void \displayLilyMusic \voiceOne

lilypond /tmp/blablaabla.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.17.30
Processing `/tmp/blablaabla.ly'
Parsing...
{
  \override Voice.AccidentalSuggestion.direction = #1
  \override Voice.DotColumn.direction = #1
  \override Voice.Dots.direction = #1
  \override Voice.Fingering.direction = #1
  \override Voice.LaissezVibrerTie.direction = #1
  \override Voice.LigatureBracket.direction = #1
  \override Voice.MultiMeasureRest.direction = #1
  \override Voice.PhrasingSlur.direction = #1
  \override Voice.RepeatTie.direction = #1
  \override Voice.Rest.direction = #1
  \override Voice.Script.direction = #1
  \override Voice.Slur.direction = #1
  \override Voice.Stem.direction = #1
  \override Voice.TextScript.direction = #1
  \override Voice.Tie.direction = #1
  \override Voice.TupletBracket.direction = #1
  \override Voice.TrillSpanner.direction = #1
  \set Voice . graceSettings = #'((Voice Stem font-size -3) (Voice Flag 
font-size -3) (Voice NoteHead font-size -3) (Voice TabNoteHead font-size -4) 
(Voice Dots font-size -3) (Voice Stem length-fraction 0.8) (Voice Stem 
no-stem-extend #t) (Voice Beam beam-thickness 0.384) (Voice Beam 
length-fraction 0.8) (Voice Accidental font-size -4) (Voice 
AccidentalCautionary font-size -4) (Voice Script font-size -3) (Voice Fingering 
font-size -8) (Voice StringNumber font-size -8))
  \override Voice.NoteColumn.horizontal-shift = #0
 
}


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David Kastrup