On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:21 AM, James Wilkinson wrote: > On 10/11/10 6:22 PM, James Bailey wrote: >> >> On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote: >>>> On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: >>>> >>>>> if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus >>>>> you: >>>>> >>>>> 1) save typing >>>>> 2) help lilypond so it does't need to waste time guessing obvious things >>>>> and it can concentrate on the big stuff :) >>>>> >>>>> you just need to create a third voice with spacers and all the common >>>>> marks, in parallel with the other two: >>> >>> I'm not at all certain that's a good idea. The dynamics won't be >>> present in MIDI (which is probably no great loss), but more >>> importantly, it messes up the semantics for no particularly good >>> reason. >> >> Maybe I misunderstand, but if I do: >> { >> << >> \relative c' { c4 d e f<< { g a g f } \\ { e2 d }>> e4 f e d c1 } >> {s1\mf s4\< s\! s\> s\! s1\p s } >> >> >> } >> >> The dynamics show up in the MIDI. And if they're separated into variables, I >> can change the dynamics and the music independantly and easily, without fuss >> or muss. > > I ran this and got the dynamics on a separate staff with no notes. I don't > think that's what you meant.
Sorry, I forgot the \new Staff before the <<>> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user