Ok cool thanks everyone, I'll definitely be mindful of that in future. Any ideas about my partcombine problem?
Brent. On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, 11:19 pm Knute Snortum, <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've also found that this works most of the time: > > lilypond 2.22 "search words" > > -- > Knute Snortum > > > -- > Knute Snortum > > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 5:15 AM Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > > > > On 17/06/2021 12:51, Brent Annable wrote: > > > > Hi Phil, > > > > I was here: > > > > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#automatic-part-combining > > > > I see now in the URL that the version is 2.20, but this is where Google > sent me when I searched for "Lilypond partcombine" (without the quotation > marks). Should I always check to see where I end up, or was this a cached > page, or will it perhaps be taken down at some point? > > > > Brent. > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, 9:29 pm Phil Holmes, <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > >> > >> On 17/06/2021 12:19, Brent Annable wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > I'm trying to use \partCombine to merge two parts with beamed eighth > notes in cadenza mode (see attached). What I want is for the three eighth > notes in the lower part to merge into chords with the upper part, but > Lilypond doesn't seem to want to do it. When I take out the [ ] beaming > marks, it merges the second two notes, but the first one (tied to the > previous e-flat) still won't merge with the part above it. > >> > > >> > Is there a way to get \partCombine to do this? > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > > >> > Brent. > >> > > >> > PS: I've noticed that the online documentation still says to use > \partcombine with a lower-case "c", but when I try that I get error > messages. It only works for me in version 2.22.1 when I use camel case > (\partCombine). > >> > >> Are you sure you're actually using the 2.22 documentation? See: > >> > >> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#index-part-combiner > >> > >> where the c is clearly upper case. > >> > >> -- > >> Phil Holmes > >> > > Unfortunately Google frequently fails to direct you to the latest > documentation, so it's better to start from the lilypond site and use the > documentation index. We leave old versions of the docs for people who are > still using old versions of lilypond. > > > > -- > > Phil Holmes >
