I do want to combine the parts. I want them to appear in chord form, except
when the voices are a 2nd apart or closer.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Quoting Carl Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I'm trying to take advantage of automatic part combining to make it easier
>> to set the songs for a hymnal. There are a couple of technical things I
>> need
>> assistance on.
>>
>> 1) Whenever two parts on the same staff are on the same note, the part
>> combiner only prints one stem. Is there any way to get the part combiner
>> to
>> output two stems for a due notes?
>>
>
> It seems that you don't want to combine the parts, but rather to keep them
> as two separate voices, typeset in the same staff.
> Something like
>
> soprano = \relative c'{ c d e f }
> alto = \relative c' { c b e d }
> \score{
> \new Staff << \soprano \\ \alto >>
> }
>
>
>> 2) Is there a way to bind the lyrics to the original (uncombined) parts
>> without outputting the parts themselves?
>>
> Not if you use \partcombine, but indeed if you use the technique described
> above (or even easier if you read section "Explicitly intantiating
> voice" in the manual).
>
> /Mats
>
>
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