Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

[James Wilkinson]

On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote:

> > When I put two voices on the same staff that have identical markings
> > for dynamics and tempo, Lilypond prints them both, one above the
> > other.
> [...]
> > Back to my original question: if Lilypond can see that one of these
> > things needs to be moved, how hard would it be to have it determine
> > that they are identical and just not print one of them?
>
> if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus
> you:
>
> 1) save typing
> 2) help lilypond so it does't need to waste time guessing obvious things
> and it can concentrate on the big stuff :)
>
> you just need to create a third voice with spacers and all the common
> marks, in parallel with the other two:
>
> ----------------8<-------------------------------
>
> \version "2.12.3" % should also work on 2.13
>
> <<
> \relative c'' {
> a b c d
> } \\
> \relative c' {
> c d e f
> } \\
> {
> s4\f s4\> s4-"and markups too too" s4\p
> }

Took me a while to get around to it. Works like a champ. Thanks

Is there somewhere in the docs that I should have spotted this before 
doing it wrong the first time?

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