Richard Lyons wrote:
This is quite a learning curve! I have to use two voices in some bars, so I end up needing to carry the two voices to wherever phrasing slurs lead. Sometimes I have to put the same note in both voices and make one stem transparent, so as to include all ties and slurs. Fiddly, but manageable.
If you use << { ... } \\ {...} >> to create the two voices, LilyPond will automatically set the direction of stems, slurs, ties and so on to point upwards and downwards, respectively, in the two voices, corresponding to the macros \voiceOne and \voiceTwo. When you only have one voice (and maybe an additional voice with invisible notes to keep a slur alive), you probably want to say \oneVoice, which resets direction settings and uses the default directions. If you do that in both the voices and have the same note in both voices, the stems will coincide, so you don't have to make one of the invisible.
But :
- some ties just refuse to appear - no error message, just silently
dropped. And
Please send an example.
- I cannot find any way to affect the shape of slurs. I've tried
beautiful and de-uglify, but the parameters I've entered have no
effect at all.
Have you looked at the example files at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/test/out-www/collated-files.html and http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html
See also the mailing list archives, for example http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-05/msg00270.html
However, the slur layout is tricky (in order to produce beautiful results by default) so it's hard to understand the exact effect of the different parameters.
- Ties insist on selecting their vertical curvature according to the voice. If I have to use the top voice, the tie curves up, even when the notes are right at the bottom of the stave and there is also a slur below. This looks wrong. But '\tieDown' does nothing,
'\property Voice.TieColumn \override #'direction = #-1' has no
effect. What am I doing wrong?
Again, please send a small example file to the mailing list and I'm sure someone can help.
/Mats
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