Re: Newbie Q about stems and chords

[Graham Percival]

On 13-Aug-05, at 5:51 PM, Thomas Ruedas wrote:

> One of the things I have tried to find out concerns the notation of
> alternating stem orientation if one voice is distributed on both staffs
> of a piano score. I didn't find an example for my problem in the 
> example
> collection or on Mutopia, so I'd be grateful for some help.

Have you looked at the Automatic staff changes?  It's not optimal,
so it may not be good for you, but if it _did_ work, you could avoid
a lot of extra work.

> \clef bass \key bes \major \time 2/4
> \relative { \u bes,16 \l bes \u bes \l bes \u bes \l bes \u bes \l bes 
> }}
> ii = \context Staff { \context Voice = "ii" \voiceTwo
> { \clef bass \key bes \major \time 2/4  } s1 }

s1 means "a whole-note invisible rest" -- in other words, sixteen 16th
notes.  You probably want to use s2 here.

> However, if I want to set a chord instead of a single note, I get 
> errors;
> a line like this
> \relative { \u { <bes,16 f> } \l bes \u bes \l { <bes bes,> } \u { <bes

The duration is specified outside the chord; ie
<bes, f>16


Finally, after finally compiling 2.4, you may want to try 2.6 (or 
perhaps the
pre-compiled binaries) -- 2.6 is easier to use in a number of ways, and 
the
manual is much better (*cough* I'm biased, though:).  Even if you stick 
with
2.4, you may find it helpful to read the 2.6 manual; a lot of things 
will still
work in 2.4.

Cheers,
- Graham