Re: Splitting Staves

2020-02-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > the programming/Scheme layer of LilyPond often allows to _map_ > a problem description in composer terms to an approach in LilyPond terms. > So sometimes finding a consistent way of describing and structuring a > problem may garner the necessary help from the list that then provides a

Re: Splitting Staves

2020-02-08 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Dan (et al.), > >> On Feb 6, 2020, at 09:32, Kieren MacMillan >> wrote: >>> So what I want to work on is some sort of ”Splittable Staff“. > > Just to be clear, Valentin wrote that, not me. =) > >> This terminology looks at the use case from a point of view that

Re: Splitting Staves

2020-02-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
t; very consistent with LilyPond. Let's think carefully about what we want to > call this, because names have a way of coloring the problem-solving process. Agreed. > We should entertain "moving voices" as an alternative idea to "splitting > staves" so that we are mor

Re: Splitting Staves

2020-02-06 Thread Dan Eble
, because names have a way of coloring the problem-solving process. LilyPond already has some features that can move a voice between staves (\change and \autoChange), and is able to hide staves without music. We should entertain "moving voices" as an alternative idea to "split

Re: Splitting Staves

2020-02-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin, > As it is I think one of the important features missing in Lilypond is the > ability to split one staff into multiple staves, which is a feature quite > nescessary for orchestral and choral settings. The term "missing" is perhaps misleading: I do exactly this all the time. That

Re: Splitting Staves

2020-02-06 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Petzel writes: > Hello, > > As it is I think one of the important features missing in Lilypond is the > ability to split one staff into multiple staves, which is a feature quite > nescessary for orchestral and choral settings. There is an ”official“ hack to > do > it by using

Splitting Staves

2020-02-06 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello, As it is I think one of the important features missing in Lilypond is the ability to split one staff into multiple staves, which is a feature quite nescessary for orchestral and choral settings. There is an ”official“ hack to do it by using different staves and switching context, but