Hello again Andrew,
Yes, this is exactly what I do, even if I did not want to make my
snippet too complicated by introducing also the piano staff. You
could of course use four staves, but in real life often two staves
are used with two voices in each. Often however life is not that
simple, there are more than four voices: first and second soprano,
first and second alto etc. And it is in these cases the shown
situation arises. Sometimes e.g. second soprano is singing at the
same pitch as first alto. In order to make reading the notes as
simple as possible one wants to have their notes separated, and
the initially described situation arises. So, why can't I produce
a note image like this (produced in GIMP, since I do not know how
to do it in LilyPond)?:
Kaj
On 2018-04-26 kl. 18:41, Andrew Bernard
wrote:
Hi Kaj,
Then why not use four voices for SATB, and two staves as per
say a standard vocal template, such as the example hymn
template in the Snippets section of the manual? All the dot
clashes go away - which is I suppose the advantage of the
established way of setting such music for SATB,
Andrew
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