Hi Kieren, Well, I'm clueless about how to help with your issue. But congrats on the premiere/recording!
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > I write [and engrave] a lot of choral music. > > There's one big thing I want to do in Lilypond, and wanted to get some > opinions on the matter... > > In my choral music, there are often large sections of unison and two-part > writing, as well as four- and [complex] eight-part writing. That is to say, > often the music can be completely represented on a single staff, but usually > it needs two or three or four, and every once in a while it requires eight > (i.e., one staff per vocal part). > > In a perfect world, I would like to indicate [in the .ly code] where a Voice > *requires* its own Staff context, and then have Lilypond make the > Staff-generating [partcombine?] decisions automatically, in order to get the > best overall spacing. So (e.g.) if half-way through a system a unison section > would [need to] break into four staves, either Lilypond would "back-quote" > the unison music to fill the first half of the system, or insert a break at > that point and respace the section accordingly, so that the "split" happens > at the beginning of the new system. [I hope I've adequately explained what > I'm looking for.] > > Right now, I'm using a somewhat complex combination of \quoteDuring [drawing > from a "unison" variable] and manual breaks to accomplish this task. But I > was hoping there might be a way to get it automated, mostly or fully. > > Since it would impact horizontal as well as vertical spacing, I imagine that: > 1. The logic/algorithm/code would have to be in an engraver, and maybe > even in C++, as opposed to in a Scheme function. > 2. It might require multiple passes [like the old two-pass spacing macro]. > 3. What I'm asking for might not be possible at all. > > Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > Kieren. > > p.s. At the U.S. premiere (and CD recording) of my "Fantasy Variations" this > past weekend in Arizona, I got more compliments on the score/parts -- yay, > Lilypond! > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Neil Thornock, D.M. Check out the newly designed website! http://neilthornock.net Assistant Professor of Music Composition/Theory Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user