Re: \shiftOn doesen't behave as expected

[James E. Bailey]

Am 18.08.2008 um 19:53 schrieb Francisco Vila:

> 2008/8/18 James E. Bailey <address@hidden>:
> > I realise it isn't at draft stage yet, but I thought I'd say that  
> > there's a
> > slight inaccuracy in 1.5.3, \oneVoice doesn't put a voice into the  
> > same
> > voice context before and after a temporary polyphonic passage, not
> > explicitly creating two new voices does that. \oneVoice just sets  
> > the beams
> > and stems so that they go the direction they're supposed to. It's  
> > the the
> > equivalent of setting \stemNeutral \beamNeutral \tieNeutral  
> > \slurNeutral
> > \phrasingSlurNeutral and anything else that \voiceOne ...  
> > \voiceFour sets to
> > #UP or #DOWN.
>
> Then, please, could you clarify why the "this is my song" example
> works as expected? I am more and more confused for moments.
>
> --
> Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
> http://www.paconet.org
it's not that it doesn't work, like I said, it's a slight inaccuracy.  
The voice that exists before and after a short polyphonic section is  
going to be the same regardless of whether you use \oneVoice or not.  
you could use \voiceThree after the polyphonic section, it's still the  
same voice. The point to make clear (and I think a thorough reading of  
the appropriate section in the learning manual actually does that), is  
that if, in a short polyphonic section you only explicitly create one  
voice (the second voice usually), then the voice that existed  
previously is the first voice in the polyphonic section, so you can  
carry a slur from a one-voice situation into a multi-voice situation,  
or out again. So yes, it works, but \oneVoice has nothing to do with  
it working.