Re: Using partCombine with beamed melismata in cadenza mode

[Brent Annable]

Hi Phil,

I was here:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#automatic-part-combining

I see now in the URL that the version is 2.20, but this is where Google sent me when I searched for "Lilypond partcombine" (without the quotation marks). Should I always check to see where I end up, or was this a cached page, or will it perhaps be taken down at some point?

Brent.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, 9:29 pm Phil Holmes, <mail@philholmes.net> wrote:

On 17/06/2021 12:19, Brent Annable wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use \partCombine to merge two parts with beamed eighth notes in cadenza mode (see attached). What I want is for the three eighth notes in the lower part to merge into chords with the upper part, but Lilypond doesn't seem to want to do it. When I take out the [ ] beaming marks, it merges the second two notes, but the first one (tied to the previous e-flat) still won't merge with the part above it.
>
> Is there a way to get \partCombine to do this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Brent.
>
> PS: I've noticed that the online documentation still says to use \partcombine with a lower-case "c", but when I try that I get error messages. It only works for me in version 2.22.1 when I use camel case (\partCombine).

Are you sure you're actually using the 2.22 documentation?  See:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#index-part-combiner

where the c is clearly upper case.

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Phil Holmes