I am thinking of sharing my experiences as a user in this field by
contributing a tutorial or a practical experiences story (or whatever)
on this topic. It would make a distinction between:
1) temporary staves
2) divisi allocation over groups of staves
since these are different concepts, and they are handled differently by
the Lilypond user, although both depend on keepAliveInterfaces.
And I could contribute a bit on techniques to have >2 voices per staff,
rhythmically homophonic or rhythmically polyphonic, especially in the
context of divisi staves.
What would be the best venue for this? Lilypond docs? User list? Scores
of Beauty? If it gets into the Lilypond docs, it is there to "stay
forever" which would be nice.
One elaborate example of my experiences is found in the score and parts
of "3 Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck" by Alban Berg, see
https://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban) (travel to the
tab [Arrangements and Transcriptions]). One can have a look at e.g. the
Violins I part, mvt. 1, Bars 396-404; there is a 5-fold divisi which is
folded into one staff in the full score. Or practically any instrument
group, for that matter.
Rutger
On 5/28/20 10:33 AM, Lib Lists wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 18:10, Valentin Villenave <valen...@villenave.net> wrote:
On 5/27/20, Lib Lists <lists...@gmail.com> wrote:
merge the stems so
that the final result looks like one voice.
In that case, what you want clearly is \partcombine (\partCombine since 2.21).
If you have more than two voices, then you can always apply another
\partCombine on top of the first two voices, or use other tricks to
deal with the more complex situations.
I understand. Unfortunately I cannot find a way to use the
remove-layer technique with \partcombine (see attached file). I'd like
to hide the top staff while maintaining the staff group between bar
19-24 for the difficult passage. Is there a way to achieve this? In
other words there are four notations that I'd need to achieve for
divisi: unisono, divisi (a2, a3, etc.) on same voice & same staff,
divisi on different voices & same staff, divisi on different staves.
Finally, adding a \shortInstrumentName in the StaffGroup gives an
error, but the resulting pdf is otherwise correct.
instrumentName and shortInstrumentName are both siple property
definitions, not variables or functions so the \ is not needed; just
instrumentName = "something".
That worked, thank you!
Cheers,
-- V.