Re: [Denemo-devel] Splitting and joining staffs / voices

[Phil (list)]

On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 11:44 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 21:31 -0500, Phil (list) wrote:
> > Are there any tutorials on this functionality? 
> The functionality of the "Split Voices" "Join Voices" is not
> documented,
> but *very* likely it is not what you want. (I think it would be
> better
> if these were hidden commands, only for people with some special
> needs.)
> All those commands do is affect the display, showing all the voices
> in
> the display on one staff rather than on separate staffs. This makes
> it
> difficult to edit them without much benefit nowadays when you can
> have a
> small portion of the score continuously typeset so you can see how
> they
> will look on the same staff. So keep your voices displaying on
> separate
> staffs (as when you "Add Voice").
> 

Glad I asked... this definitely wouldn't have done what I thought it
would.

> >  I've been trying to
> > figure out how to use it without much success so far.  I have a
> > staff
> > that has multiple voices that I'm thinking I need to split into
> > multiple staffs to get MIDI import to do what is desired on the
> > receiving end (i.e. when importing the MIDI that has been exported
> > from
> > Denemo/Lilypond, one of the apps I'm using only creates as many
> > MIDI
> > tracks as there were staffs in the source document, rather than
> > matching the voices from the source)
> 
> whether you have them displaying on one or two staffs won't affect
> Denemo's MIDI export. It won't affect LilyPond's either (since it
> only
> affects the Denemo Display), though LilyPond's MIDI may be different
> if
> you use the Voice to Staff command to typeset the voices on separate
> staffs.
> 

This is good to know... I think I need to do a bit more digging on the
importing app side to better understand what's going on.

Thanks,
Phil

> HTH
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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