RE: Learning how to use "\change Staff"; don't get it yet, obviously

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Kenneth,

If you want, send your code to me and I shall try to achieve what you want with 
an explanation.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Wolcott [mailto:kennethwolcott@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2022 6:45 PM
To: Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonmark@ca.rr.com>
Cc: Lily Pond <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Learning how to use "\change Staff"; don't get it yet, obviously

Hi Mark;

  Thank you for the help.

  I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around this.

  I think that the problem (in general) with my being able to apply examples 
from the documentation to my engraving attempts is that the example is not 
large enough (not enough notes, too minimal) to require its own variable to 
contain the notes, so that gets in the way of the Lilypond feature that I want 
to use.

  I will try removing the variables and just place the notes for the first 
measure only to see if I can finally make this work, and generalize it later.

Thanks,
Ken

On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 3:04 PM Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonmark@ca.rr.com> 
wrote:
>
> Kenneth,
>
> Not dense at all.
> Change staff works within a single voice. You split it between rh and lh. 
> Might suggest you use "upper" and "lower" for staff designation if you use rh 
> and lh as variable names.
>
> Assuming you start in "lower" with lh.
> Then
> \tuplet 3/2 { b,8(d b }
>   \change Staff = "upper"   %% now continue with what you want in "upper"
> { d'8 fs' b' } \tuplet 3/2 { d''8 b' fs' }
>   \change Staff = "lower"   %% and so on.
>
> Note: that rh must contain spacers all the while so that the voice can move 
> back and forth without collisions.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lilypond-user 
> [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr.com@gnu.org] On Behalf 
> Of Kenneth Wolcott
> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2022 2:49 PM
> To: Lily Pond <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> Subject: Learning how to use "\change Staff"; don't get it yet, 
> obviously
>
> Hi;
>
>   I'm learning how to engrave music that changes from one staff to another.
>
>   I, obviously, do not understand yet how to do this, even after reading the 
> pertinent section in the Notation Reference.
>
>   My attempt to engrave the first three bars of the harp score of Swan Lake 
> fails with the following:
>
> Swan_Lake.ly:40:3: warning: cannot find context to change to: Staff = 
> RH
>
>   \change Staff = "RH"
> Swan_Lake.ly:22:3: warning: cannot find context to change to: Staff = 
> LH
>
>   \change Staff = "LH" <> s4                                    | % m01
>
>   I have attached a screenshot of the first three bars of the harp score of 
> Swan Lake, my LIlypond source code and the result of my engraving attempt.
>
>   I don't think that there's anything wrong with Lilypond, and there's 
> nothing wrong with the documentation, but this Lilypond user is a bit dense.
>
>   If I can just get the first bar engraving correctly, I think I can 
> make it the rest of the way :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott
>