Dear LilyPond folks Thanks so much for taking an interest. First, I forgot two important pieces of information - yes, I am using Windows... (hangs head in shame) and it has 16 Gb of memory.. The OS is 64 bit, but I don't suppose that matters to lilypond as compiled for windows..?
So interesting... it is clear that overuse of the << \\ >> construct causes issues. I would welcome comments about how to re-write the score without it. If the correct way to do it is then an affirmation would be sufficient rather than a tutorial, which would be greatly appreciated otherwise ;-). I would like to address the point about why people do this - although obviously I can only speak for myself, and I have two reasons. The first, I confess to sometimes using lilypond to generate midi files from piano accompaniments so that I can practise the main part when I don't have the luxury of a pianist (which is almost all the time). I am therefore copying existing scores. In order to eliminate (!) mistakes, I do it a few bars at a time, as corrections are much easier for me to do in the last few bars. If I were to use two voices for the whole of a staff, once I'd written the first staff, going back and finding the places where two voices are required, and filing in all the spaces, is tedious and taxing for me... The second reason, if I were to write a staff as two lines, all the parts where there is effectively only a single voice look horrible, because all the rests and note stems look wrong. Very best regards, and thanks to all who've replied, Dave -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Bugs-f58488.html _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond