Re: rest placement in multi-voice piano staff

2015-03-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > I had intended to use the automatic voicing, but somehow got the syntax > wrong. > Nor did I realize that for voices 3 and 4, you use \voiceOne and \voiceTwo. That’s not exactly the way I would put it… What you call “voices 3 and 4” are actually voices 1 and 2 **in the lower sta

Re: rest placement in multi-voice piano staff

2015-03-27 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> > Hi David, > > > I was wondering if anyone had a clue as to how to get the eighth rest in > voice three to be shown above the half note in voice four? > > Yes: use Lilypond’s automatic voicing: > > \new PianoStaff << > \new Staff = "upper" << > \new Voice = "f

Re: rest placement in multi-voice piano staff

2015-03-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Just for the benefit of anyone reading this thread after the fact… > you can specify a placement for the rest by indicating a note\rest. in this > case i used g8\rest While that is technically true, we should be encouraging the proper use of the \voiceX commands, which (as I’ve shown)

RE: rest placement in multi-voice piano staff

2015-03-24 Thread Stephen MacNeil
you can specify a placement for the rest by indicating a note\rest. in this case i used g8\rest hope that helps stephen \include "english.ly" pianoVoiceOne = \relative c' { 2 } pianoVoiceTwo = \relative c' { s1 } pianoVoiceThree = \relative c' { \stemDown g8\rest a fs [ d ] \stemUp b gs

Re: rest placement in multi-voice piano staff

2015-03-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > I was wondering if anyone had a clue as to how to get the eighth rest in > voice three to be shown above the half note in voice four? Yes: use Lilypond’s automatic voicing: \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "upper" << \new Voice = "first" { \voiceOn

rest placement in multi-voice piano staff

2015-03-24 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
I was wondering if anyone had a clue as to how to get the eighth rest in voice three to be shown above the half note in voice four? \version "2.19.15" \include "english.ly" pianoVoiceOne = \relative c' { 2 } pianoVoiceTwo = \relative c' { s1 } pianoVoiceThree = \relative c' { \stemDown r8 a fs