Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

[James Wilkinson]

On 10/11/10 6:22 PM, James Bailey wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > > On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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:
> >
> > I'm not at all certain that's a good idea.  The dynamics won't be
> > present in MIDI (which is probably no great loss), but more
> > importantly, it messes up the semantics for no particularly good
> > reason.
>
> Maybe I misunderstand, but if I do:
> {
>   <<
>    \relative c' { c4 d e f<<  { g a g f } \\ { e2 d }>>  e4 f e d c1 }
>    {s1\mf s4\<  s\! s\>  s\! s1\p s }
>   >>
> }
>
> The dynamics show up in the MIDI. And if they're separated into variables, I 
> can change the dynamics and the music independantly and easily, without fuss or 
> muss.

I ran this and got the dynamics on a separate staff with no notes. I 
don't think that's what you meant.

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