On 26 October 2011 23:06, J. Boor <boor...@gmail.com> wrote: > In this file: > > http://www.jboor.net/music/polyreel/poly.ly > > a second voice begins in the second measure. > > I would like there to be a tie between the last E in the first measure and > the first e4 in the second measure. The only way that I have > been able to do this is by beginning the polyphony earlier > and using a skip at the beginning of the second voice. > > Is there a better way to do this? The piece doesn't really > have two voices through out, so I don't want to litter my > score with rests.
You can instanciate explicitly the voices, see explanations in NR 1.5.2 Multiple voices > Single-staff polyphony > Explicitly instantiating voices http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices.html#single_002dstaff-polyphony See below how it can be done. Actually there is an enhancement request to improve << \\ >> so it could handle these cases better. It is tracked as issue #1316 . http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1316 %%%% Snippet \version "2.14.2" global = { \key d \major } \score { << \new Staff = "mandolin" \with { instrumentName = "Mandolin" } { \new Voice = "mandolin" { \relative c' { \global d8[ fis] a[ g,] d''[ d,] fis'[ e~] << { %% this is the continuation of main "mandolin" voice %% stems, slurs, etc. UP \voiceOne e4 fis16[ g fis8] e[ d] c[ a] } \new Voice = "mandolinTwo" { %% stems, slurs, etc. DOWN \voiceTwo g,8[ d'] b2. % there was a typo here (I added 'b')! } >> \oneVoice %% stems, slurs, etc. back to normal: NEUTRAL %% continuation of main "mandolin" voice %% etc. } } } >> \layout { } } %%%% End of snippet Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user