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From: | lilypond |
Subject: | Re: Changing voice order... |
Date: | Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:33:50 +0200 |
Am 2016-10-27 13:40, schrieb David Kastrup:
while the documentation is quite explicit that, ordered from top to bottom, assignments should be more like 1/2, 3/1/2, 3/1/2/4, 5/3/1/2/4, 5/3/1/2/4/6 ... namely keeping the small voice numbers for the inner voices.
Are you sure? I always understood this as 1/3/5/6/4/2, not 5/3/1/2/4/6 (small numbers for outer voices).
Thoughts?
In three part polyphony the << ... \\ ... \\ ... >> shortcut makes the third (inner voice) a \voiceThree which means upward stems (and other automatically set directions). But often one should wants downward stems, so one needs \voiceFour. This is unintentional because there are no four voices; and the ordering 1/3/5/6/4/2 is very confusing for beginners.
Suggestion: change << highest \\ lowest \\ second highest \\ second lowest \\ .. >> to << highest ; second highest ; ... \\ ... ; second lowest ; lowest >>This would be a single \\ to separate upward and downward voices and ; (or some other symbol) to separate voices of the same kind.
So << vI \\ vIII \\ { \voiceFour vII } >> would become << vI \\ vII ; vIII >> (vIII being the lowest voice)
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