At 07:52 PM 7/26/00 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>Judging from your picture, I conclude that you actually probably want
>something different, that's also on my wishlist. .............
>This is *almost* what you want, right? Only, for some reason, several
>stems were combined, while others were not (btw, I can see why you'd
>want to have two stems, up and down, on the firs g in the second measure:
>it's the only way to suggest two notes iso one. But why does the first
>chord <a g> have two stems? Maybe just a small typesetting error?).
This is the combined soprano and alto parts. The conventional rules for
hymnals is that the stems should be combined unless the values are
different or the pitch differs by less than a third. Take a look at the
hymnal next time you go to church. Glen doesn't like the convention and
has advised me to just make soprano go up, and alto go down. I don't know.
>So, what would do the trick for you, and would have some sensible meaning,
>would be to have an engraver (or maybe an iterator) that can combine
>noteheads from different voices onto one stem.
Yes, I suppose that would be the best solution. I am a little intimidated
by the idea of writing an engraver. I am less intimidated by writing a
program to generate kludged-up mudela.
John Henckel alt. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zumbro Falls, Minnesota, USA (507) 753-2216
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