On Tue 01 Nov 2016 at 15:36:56 (-0000), Phil Holmes wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> > To: "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> > Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 2:42 PM > Subject: Re: Changing voice order... > > > > >There are by now two components to my proposal: fading out \voiceOne > >... \voiceFour since they _never_ correspond to voices 1/2/3/4 in a > >four-voiced context but to voices 1/4/2/3. And changing the meaning of > ><< \\ \\ \\ >>. > > > I'm concerned by this. I don't believe I have ever used more than 2 > voices in choral music: typically the sops/tenors get voice one, and > the alto/basses get voice two. If any of these is doubled (e.g. > sop1 and sop2) then they are shown as chorded notes, still in their > normal voice. If it gets more complex than this, then current vocal > music almost always resorts to a stave per vocal group. It looks to > me like the proposal would end up with voiceTwo having upstems. I > am very much against that. It would mean I would have to update a > lot of music to make it usable. I don't use concert-ly 'cos I find > it a pain on Windows. > > Who uses four voices on one stave in vocal setting?
Well, I thought, if anyone does, it'll be the Novello Book of Carols. It's all so over-compressed. But I could only come up with what's technically three, I suppose. (I only looked for fun.) Cheers, David.
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